Word: toddler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gerber, with babies still its only business, has begun thinking beyond infant appetites to consider the total baby. The company is marketing pants, bibs, socks, shirts, crib sheets and toddler clothes, is testing paper washcloths, diapers and lotion-treated tissues, and five months ago set up a department to explore other diversification...
...Lilly D. Hoekstra, administrator of St. Louis Children's Hospital. "Mothers," she said, "leave the pills in a conspicuous place so they won't forget to take them." In modest doses the pills are probably not dangerous, but a month's supply may make a toddler miserably ill. The prime remedy, as in most childhood poisonings, is ipecac to get the victim to vomit...
...toddler, he would eavesdrop on his sisters' piano lessons, and by the time he was three he was "a terrible little fiend" about music, screaming when his sisters struck a sour note, banging the piano lid down on their fingers. At four, he was performing at charity concerts, pressing his engraved calling cards on everyone he met: ARTUR THE GREAT PIANO VIRTUOSO. It annoyed him even then that people always asked if he was any kin to the great Anton Rubinstein, and so he took to prancing around town with the words NO RELATION inscribed on the front...
...TODDLER ON THE RUN by Shena Mackay. 105 pages. Simon & Schusfer...
Despite all of which, to talk about somebody else, I think Michael Erhardt (Sganarelle) has Lithgow beat on the use of the hands. He managed, when speaking delightedly of the prospect of children, to so fiddle with his fingers at the level of a toddler's topknot, to suggest that he was plucking the little urchins' heads...