Word: latchkeys
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...back of their minds; it goes off sooner or later, and sends them back to school, to work, or to war. They are almost discreet about their indiscretions, largely because (unlike their parents) they no longer want or need to shock their elders. The generation has "won its latchkey." It sees no point or fun in yelling for freedom to do as it pleases, because generally no one keeps it from doing as it pleases. It is not rebellious-either against convention or instruction, the state or fate, Pop or Mom. Toward its parents, it exhibits an indulgent tolerance...
Gloves? Money? Cigarettes? Matches? Yes; and I had an umbrella for its tempests, and a latchkey for my safe return...
Gloves? Money? Cigarettes? Matches? Yes; and I had an umbrella for its tempests, and a latchkey for my safe return...
...would be sheer nonsense-ignorant, dangerous nonsense-to talk about grants of full government to many of the dependent territories for some time to come. In these instances it would be like giving a child of ten a latchkey, a bank account and a shotgun...
...pretty but maturing blonde (Miss Byington, last seen in When Ladies Meet) has for 15 years been kept with quiet dignity by a small and practical Baltimorean (Mr. Truex). Because of her propensity for bestowing her latchkey on attractive strangers ("It's so hard to know what to give a man"), the lady snares dissolute Nathan Gifford (Eliot Cabot). Unhappily, the lady's daughter, fresh from a French convent, decides to get Mr. Gifford for herself. She does. Her mother seeks temporary solace in the familiar arms of her longtime protector...