Word: infantability
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Author of the letters is also an author of books (Letters of a Bohemian, Belle of Bohemia}. Her latest book professes to be the story of her life, begins with a newsgatherer of Emporia, Kan. named Graham discovering her, an infant, under a sunflower. He adopted her, lost her when, according to the book, she sought freedom for the stage by begging a passing stranger to marry her. He did. She left him, started on an international career which included four marriages and. according to the narrative, acquaintance with such statesmen as the late Theodore Roosevelt (who she says...
Very neat . . . . very pretty . . . . Shepley, Bullfinch, Abbott, Lowell, Abbott. Bullfinch and Shepley. . . .I hear the head tutor at. Dunster has an ice box. . . .the infant of Spain is that way . . . .whoops, dearie the frigid heir. . . . well, just a small bowful if Gale has it . . . .I tell you I'm off it. . . .practically . . . .where's the house named for the second president?. . . .Ohoooo. . . .I see . . . .hey, when, when, I tell you I'm off it....where the jesuchristo are my dress studs?. . . .where the ditto are my pumps?....has the head tutor also got pumps and studs for his tutees?....lousy...
...Dominions asked that the Mother Country accept the last half only of this scheme: the wall around the Empire. Within this high wall the Dominions wish to maintain their own low walls, protecting their "infant" manufacturing industries from the competition of Englishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen. If Great Britain would be willing to make the Empire wall quite high, the Dominions said in effect, then they would be willing to make their little walls quite low. Point: by this arrangement the Mother Country would buy much more in the way of raw materials from her Dominions than at present (because Argentine...
...team, almost broke, becomes fired with the idea that inasmuch as the infant film industry is just learning to talk, there ought to be money in an elocution school in Hollywood. Their subsequent adventures through the fantastic world that Messrs Kaufman & Hart have located on the West Coast are crowded with humor. Nowhere could Once In A Lifetime receive better appreciation than on the legitimate stage of Broadway where prestige and livelihoods have been jeopardized by the microphones and cameras of California. Once In A Lifetime is really Broadway's Revenge...
Finally this potent, prophetic Briton indulged in a bit of pure irony which made some of the Bond Clubbers squirm: "You have always protected your home market. The infant industries of America have remained in swaddling clothes ever since I can remember. You have put up a tariff wall which has enabled them to grow up to manhood and protects them today. In fact, the longer you go on, the higher it gets. Of course, you never have varied, and I don't think ever will vary it or should vary...