Word: infantability
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...March 4, 1921, Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes. N.J.. bore a son, which like many others born that day, was christened Warren Harding. On March 4, 1929, the same Mrs. John Mathes of Pompton Lakes, N.J., bore her second son. This infant, like others born that day, was named Herbert Hoover...
Half distracted by these thoughts Signora Anna prayed, fervently, wildly, to the Mother of God. Sometimes such prayers are efficacious. Last week Signora Anna's midwife was hastily called in a second time, detected an infant she had not previously noticed, assisted the belated bambino into the world, and triumphantly announced...
...President of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (1920-22). While thus employed he composed Love Triumphant, and other poems. Seven years ago he married, and two years ago, at 43, begot his only son and heir, the Hon. Timothy John Radcliffe Barnes-a lusty infant said to prefer a dash of sugar in his milk...
Quite as gruesome a joke was nearly played on the poet himself?at his birth ie was tossed aside as dead, till the midwife exclaimed to the surgeon: "Dead! Stop a minute: he's alive enough, sure!" Live enough to play the infant Hercules, with the difference that the large snake found one day in his cradle was curled up on the child's chest, comfortably asleep like himself...
...prayers for the babe in India. Presently the Goddess of Destiny was invited to enter the birth chamber and inscribe upon the forehead of the newborn child its fate. When a decent interval had elapsed, Pundit Karandikar went in to see what had happened, and clearly beheld upon the infant's brow these prophecies, or rather ordinations of the Goddess: 1.) "She will be an artistic genius, witty and intellectual." 2.) "She will marry a noble and wealthy Hindu...