Word: padded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then the cops revisited her room, heard a muffled cry across a narrow hall. They tore open a locked closet door. A baby carriage stood behind it. Inside, tenderly swathed in an electric heating pad lay the baby-alive and well...
...Books. She had bought books on baby care; by using the heating pad and a hot-water bottle she had kept the temperature in the carriage at 96°-a few degrees warmer than the temperature of an incubator. She had boiled chemicals on an electric plate to provide extra oxygen in the room. She had fed the tiny infant correct formulas from well-sterilized bottles. At the hospital astounded physicians found that the baby had gained six ounces...
Miss Hahn is much exercised to achieve this happy result. She is obliged to pad the life story of the eighteenth century novelist with fairly detailed studies of many of her close and not-so-close acquaintances. By this transparent device she manages to write a great deal about people intrinsically far more interesting than Fanny herself, notably Fanny's Father Charles Burney, the fashionable music teacher, and Hester Thrale, the fascinating woman who lodged Dr. Johnson for many years. This gallery of piquant people is what makes the biography so entertaining...
...Sometimes this got him into half-ridiculous situations. When he told steely old Charles Scribner II that there were only three really offensive words in one Hemingway manuscript, Scribner crisply asked which they were. Perkins could not bring himself to say; he had to write them out on a pad...
...snow in search of news. His red-rimmed eyes shone brightly through his glasses, grey hair poked out from under a battered fedora, and he needed a shave. Spotting a friend, Hunter, who is deaf, gave a high-pitched shout: "Any news, Bill?" Then Hunter handed him a scratch pad and a pencil. While Bill jotted down the news, Hunter read over his shoulder, now & then shouting fresh questions until he had pumped his informant...