Word: grownups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny that no grownup could read it without a magnifying glass...
...Then beginning in the late '20s, Georgia won six out of seven, and it wasn't so nice any more. When Georgia won her fifth straight in 1934, Yale thought it best to sever the relationship. After twelve years, it seems Yale is still sensitive about her grownup offspring...
Lionel, biggest toy train maker, expects to sell more trains (about $10 million worth) than the whole industry sold in its best prewar year. For grownup buffs, Chicago's Varney Scale Models Inc. invested $50,000 in drawings and dies for a new locomotive model. It has already sold 1,000 kits of parts at $100 each...
...hysteroid person is a show-off as a child, a complainer as a grownup. He (or she) is a "bachelor in marriage," holding firmly to the apron strings of both parents and using ill health as a method of sadistically dominating his family...
...live for the most part separately from the world, coming from seclusion only to perform certain tasks. When Father Sill's broken health forced him to retire, Holy Cross provided Kent with a successor in young, studious Father William Scott Chalmers, but in 1943 decided to hand grownup, self-sufficient Kent over to its trustees. Father Chalmers, by special permission, stayed on as headmaster. Father Chalmers soon discovered the impossibility of fitting his Order's cloistered rules to his job as a busy headmaster. But Kent's trustees, clinging to the school's tradition, were unwilling...