Word: childhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaving the brilliant glitter of the Diamond Horse shoe-forever. According to her story, Miss Talley was suddenly inspired to snub a new contract from the Metropolitan. She is a fatalist and destiny calls her to the soil where she once spent three months of her childhood...
...when she's bad. An' she knows all that we sailormen know-all the good-'cause no one of us ever let her hear nothin' else." The Significance. Richer tales have been written of South Sea wonders, more winning records have been made of childhood and adolescence; but Cradle of the Deep combines both...
...still contend that he has no sense of humor. Your instance of his pushing a bell and scampering away while detectives look around to find out who did it (TIME, Jan. 21) indicates rather that he has fallen into his second childhood. I have a boy, eight, who pushes the doorbell and scampers...
...original copy of one of Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son as well as several miniature books written by Charlotte Bronte during her childhood are included by one case which further shows the variety and worth of this unusual collection of Miss Lowell...
Faces of Children or (U. S. title) Mother of Mine. Once in a while, out of the stream of trade-products, comes a masterpiece-last year The Crowd, this year Faces of Children. It is the first cinema, and one of the few creations in any medium, that gets childhood across. Because of the memory of his dead mother, a boy of ten cannot get used to how things are when his father marries again. His new mother is kind to him, but she has a little daughter whom he has to quarrel with. The struggle of his loyalty against...