Word: adult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...export trade in marriageable princesses). Playboy Crown Prince Umberto, though abler than his parents, would probably have to join Europe's swelling ranks of unemployed royalty. His son, the ten-year-old Prince of Naples, was the dynasty's last feeble hope. He was oblivious of such adult troubles, having just got over a nasty case of chickenpox...
Juleps & Blue Grass. Ever since Aristides took the first Derby (worth $2,850) in 1875, the race has been an exasperating, unpredictable grind. It comes early in the year, before most three-year-old colts (and fillies) have really begun to find their adult racing stride. The distance is a tough mile and a quarter for youngsters used to six-and seven-furlong sprints, with perhaps a couple of mile or iVio races under their hoofs. The Derby has ruined more promising horses than it has made...
...Adult leaders used "guide sheets" (which they kept out of sight) to steer discussion groups ("huddles") through such intricate and disturbing topics as Hand Holding, Kissing, Necking, Petting, Love Play, Mating. One delegate explained: "It's like a gab session only more refined, of course...
...century ago this month, a London engraver's daughter named Kate Greenaway opened her eyes on the world. She soon found it good. Her adult life was a grey, lonely history of work, but she never quite lost the sunlight that filled her head when she was small. Wrote she at 50: "You can go into a beautiful new country if you stand under a large apple tree and look up to the blue sky through the white flowers. . . . I suppose I went to it very young before I could really remember and that is why I have such...
Frankie found that adolescence is one of the loneliest of human experiences. John Henry was too much of a kid to help her much. Berenice Brown was too much of an adult. When Berenice talked-her stationary blue eye still fixed on the evening paper, and her active brown eye roving around the room-adult life was fascinating but bafflingly ambiguous. According to Berenice, a man might wake up one morning and find to his surprise that he was "to all intents and purposes" a woman. And even if people stayed the way they were, their actions remained incomprehensible...