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...later years attempted serious painting and sculpture, never really learned linear perspective. She copyrighted her epicene homunculus in 1909, after first seeing its teardrop-headed form in a dream. Pirated the world over, the "Kewpie Doll" sold more than 5,000,000 copies, brought its twice-married parent more than...
...scholar shall go into any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge to eat and drink there, unless in the presence of his parent or guardian, without leave from the President, a professor, or a tutor ..." under pain of a 50 cent fine, thus spake the Harvard Laws of 1816, which are now being shown with other examples of student life and the regulation thereof in the basement display room of Widener...
...Anzio beach, dropped its big radio-controlled rocket bomb, started to guide it toward the Allied supply ships below. The ships tossed up a fountain of flak, trying to explode the projectile. Suddenly the bomb slowed in midair, twisted into a crazy loop, started straight back toward its parent plane...
...cuddle new-born babes and become interested in Weatena, Farina and Pablum; when you desert the Lone Ranger for Baby Snooks and Uncle Don; when you take to eating angel food cake, passion fruit sundaes and lover's delights; when you change your monthly magazine subscription from Esquire to Parent's Magazine; when you open a Christmas Club Savings account; when you hum "Oh, Promise Me" before going to bed, and "Here Comes The Bride" upon getting up in the morning; when the approach of June has such static effects upon your behaviour as to cause...
...your child is slow with building blocks, but quick on tantrums, he may be a lead eater. Many a parent knows that baby should not be given toys glorified with lead paint. But not all parents realize that children thwarted in this respect may start chewing lead paint off windowsills and other places. (Parents make a mistake when they carefully repaint cribs with lead-containing paint.) And not many doctors realize that one consequence of the plumbic passion in children may be stupidity. Last week doctors and parents learned the worst from an article in the American Journal of Diseases...