Word: infantability
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...Geneva, the infant daughter of a dealer in gems swallowed diamonds, rubies, sapphires, worth $4,000, and choked to death...
From the beginning, Dean Briggs was a firm believer in the infant "Annex", -and that at a time when it took courage even to mention higher education for women; when Mount Holyoke was still in rompers, and Smith, Wellesley, and Vasser had hardly passed their teething days. The "Society' for the Collegiate Instructions for Women" has reached maturity and changed its name; and now Radcliffe, in Dean Briggs' words, "shares the Harvard tradition, giving to its students' something that means more and more to them with increasing years- the love of learning and of wisdom of courage and of truth...
...spite of anarchy and assassination and rumours of war, infant Poland has successfully passed through the attacks of political measles and whooping-cough, and seems destined to grow up a strong member of the family of nations. Once established it will prove an effectual buffer between the central-European countries--more effective than the Belgium of 1914, because larger and stronger. And if, as has sometimes been claimed the true pessimist is really an optimist because everything will turn out better than he expects, the Daily Mail's correspondent can look forward to seeing in Poland the one hopeful sign...
...almost life-size in the foreground. Alongside the marching column appear the symbolic figures of three women, on an heroic scale, grasping the outstretched hands of the soldiers. In the arms of the foremost, who is dressed in a blue cape and red liberty cap, there lies a slumbering infant. Behind her marches an older figure, her half-veiled face and drooping posture expressive of great sorrow. She bears in one hand a broken sword while her arm is held by two soldiers. The third female figure stands near the center of the panel, in a pose of deflant encouragement...
Apparently the cause of the disturbance, a few infant alligators a yard or so in length, transmitted in the ordinary run of business through the mail found life in a crate in an Ohio post-office somewhat tedious. They escaped and spent most of the rest of the day playing tag around the mail files and chewing broom sticks to whet their appetites. All of which led to their being reduced to the "harmless" stage with one of the few remaining broom-sticks wielded by a doughty mail clerk...