Word: junior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Education of a future Nazi big shot begins at age 8, when he enters one of the junior leadership schools called Napoli (National Political Institutes). The boys are supposedly chosen with extreme care; actually they are usually relatives of the Schutzstaffel or Gestapo men who pick candidates. In the Napoli, handsomely equipped boarding schools, boys live like young Etonians, go in for sports, "political instruction," Nazi race theories. Each boy gets his assignment early, thereafter concentrates on special studies for his role as Gauleiter of California, Texas, Argentina or Odessa, as the case...
...scene of the crash. Then he returned to the bedside and sat there all night. The others quietly joined him: Donna Rachele, his own wife, a strong woman who opposed Bruno's flying; Vittorio, not such a good flyer, only a lieutenant while Bruno, nearly two years his junior, was a captain; Edda Ciano, the girl, who had very nearly been killed by British flyers during the Balkan fight. Bruno's pretty wife Gina was also there. The other Mussolinis-Anna, Maria and Romano, mere schoolchildren-were too young for this vigil...
...Boston Red Sox against the St. Louis Browns. > Hollywood's Bob Falkenburg: the National Boys' (under 15) tennis championship; for the second successive year; defeating Jack Tuero of New Orleans, 4-6, 8-6, 6-4, in the final; at Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind. In the Junior (under 18) championship, held simultaneously, Budge Patty, another Hollywoodian, won the title after a titanic struggle with Philadelphia's Victor Seixas, 6-3, 4-6, 6-0, 4-6, 10-8. It was the ninth year in a row (starting with Don Budge in 1933) that the Junior crown...
First speaker was a junior member of the House, Lieut. Rupert Brabner, a Navy flier on leave. Making his maiden speech and drawing on his personal experiences in the Mediterranean, Flier Brabner pulled no punches...
...actors as "The Toad." Mordantly witty, as typical of Manhattan as a knish, Vanda has a ready excuse for his devastating blintzkriegs. "It's all an act," he says. "Inside I'm just a sissy." Few people agree with him. He has referred to himself as a "junior genius," claims that with a few relatives he'd be an important man in Hollywood...