Word: infantability
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Born. To Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth (Alice Roosevelt), their first child, a daughter (six and a half pounds); in Chicago, three days before their 18th wedding anniversary. The infant was said to resemble her grandfather...
...infant . . . ripe for the gallows...
...today's CRIMSON appears the first offering of The Crime. It is a cold world in which to launch an infant "colyum". The young thing must fend for itself from the first moment of its inky existence. Some critics will look for hidden wisdom between its lines; some will always demand a lofty humor which mellows inwardly but never cracks a smile; and some will even expect the silly young thing to talk sense. But these hypercritical fellows do not count...
...weep no more my lady" over "the unquestionably evil influence exerted by popular nursery jingles" upon infant minds. But rather join in that nocturnal and nationally criminal chorus of wicked mothers, who love to sing when "quiet hour" comes, that "Old King Cole was a merry ol' soul," with all its accompanying nonsense, even though we know it to be lovely...
...sickly infant, with small chance of recovery...