Word: manchild
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty-eight years ago in an obscure village of Szechwan Province in southwest China, a modestly well off Chinese couple was blessed with a manchild, hope and pride of every Chinese home. He was given the name of Chang Shan-tse ("Good Fellow"). Five years later the mother, yielding to her small son's plea for playmates, secured for him three vigorous tiger cubs with which the infant not only played, but slept...
...years has there been a male heir to the Dutch Crown. Should Prince Consort Bernhard ("Benno") prove to have sired a manchild, Netherlanders will be wild with joy. Meanwhile the impecunious German princely family of Prince Consort Benno, the ancient House of Lippe-Detmold, are having some of their debts discreetly taken care of. It was learned that hawk-nosed Netherlands Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn recently made a quiet visit to Lippe-Detmold in Germany, made creditors happy to the tune of some...
...Eternal City had a Walter Winchell ("On Broadway"), he would have needed only the doings of the Mussolini family last week to fill most of his column ("On the Corso")* in somewhat this wise: Middle-aisling it on Feb. 6 are the Big Patoot's Manchild No. i, Vittorio, 21, who sports a fine young spinach, and his pretty poopsy, Signorina Orsola Buvoli of Milan, penniless and proud of it. Rome's swellegant hotel will feed the churchgoers out of the Big Patoot's private cache of frog-skins. . . . Dream pigeon of the week is Silvia...
...Shanghai adventure, Crown Prince Chi-chibu (a daring skier and steady-nerved huntsman) is 'not and never has been with his regiment at Shanghai. The chief sacrifice which Crown Prince Chichibu is called upon to make derives from the fact that his brother, Emperor Hirohito, has no manchild. Until the Sublime Emperor has a son (he has had four daughters) Japanese etiquet demands that Crown Prince Chichibu have no child whatsoever. Four years ago he married merry Setsuko Matsudaira who was schooled in Washington. D. C. while her father was Ambassador...