Word: infantability
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When Herbert Hoover became Secretary of Commerce (1921) he organized the American Child Health Association. It quickly found that "the infant is the best looked after of any age group . . . the child from 2 to 6 is the most neglected . . . the average citizen knows very little about the health work being done in his own city...
...Harlan, penniless professor of economics, her family disapproved but had to give in; soon it was Cope who was giving in. Cope was an agnostic; his skepticism quickly ran foul of Hilda's belief in her divine rightness. Their first serious quarrel arose over the baptism of their infant daughter; Cope refused to admit she was "conceived in sin," objected to the promises her baptismal sponsors would have to make, their own hypocrisy in making them. Finally Hilda forced him to a separation. He went abroad, made a name for himself on an international finance commission. Then Hilda wanted...
...Royal Highness Elizabeth Duchess of York, sole daughter-in-law of George V, King & Emperor, mother of "P'incess Lilybet" (sole granddughter), cancelled all her summer engagements. If male, her next infant will be third in succession to Britain's throne...
James Henry Scullin, the hard-jawed Laborite who became Prime Minister of Australia on a platform pledging protection for the Dominion's "infant industries," fulfilled his pledge last week with a wallop staggering to foreign (including English) exporters...
...tallest tales are told. Of all the fictions his journalistic cronies have written about him, those which amuse him most are the fables connecting him with people he could never have known. He is credited with having been a bosom friend of Phineas Taylor Barnum, whom he, as an infant, vaguely remembers having once seen saluting patrons at his show. Legend also has it that he frequently played at dice with Showman Adam Forepaugh. Mr. Fellowes does recall having once seen Showman Forepaugh in his father's Hartford, Conn., drug store...