Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lion's Paws. When boyish Mr. Eden appeared, there was heard in his office the plaintive cry: "If Mussolini had paid Rickett, the man couldn't have served Italy better...
...after this rebuttal of rumors, Franklin Roosevelt faced his regular circle of newshawks. Up piped one of the President's favorite interrogators, slim boyish-looking Francis Marion ("Little Stevie") Stephenson, Associated Press correspondent at the White House: "Mr. President, there have been reports that you are in a little bad health. How do you feel...
...them in," said the President to his personal secretary. "They've come a long ways. I'll be glad to meet them." Obediently the secretary stood aside until the room was filled, then stepped down to close the door. He did not notice a calm, boyish-looking man who slipped past him, his right hand bandaged in a handkerchief. Out of the handkerchief spat two bullets. President McKinley slumped on the arm of an aide. Instantly the young secretary was at his side. "My wife," murmured the wounded President, "be careful, Cortelyou, how you tell...
Harmon White Caldwell is 36* and dean of the university's Lumpkin Law School. A slight, boyish bachelor, he has clean-cut features, flawless Southern manners and a bashfulness in the presence of women which betrays a life spent at his books & business. Some thirty years ago he was distinguishing himself as the smartest boy in Haralson, Ga. Twenty years ago he was the smartest student at Boys' High School at Atlanta. He spent two years going through the University of Georgia, two more teaching, before he entered Harvard Law School in 1921. Graduated, he taught for three...
Secretary Morgenthau in his radio talk Monday evening painted the picture in his usual bright colors, but every major question which has any bearing on the future financial policies of the country was left deftly unanswered. For the most part the speech was devoted to a school-boyish recitation of the rise of the economic crisis and the sins of the Hoover administration in doing nothing to prevent it. But as for giving any reassuring words to the eager businessmen of the country, who would like to know the government's intentions concerning silver, further devaluation of the already stunted...