Word: seven-year-old
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...soon made him an editor. They later hired Harold Lynch, an assistant Episcopal rector, to handle the money. The Digest soon outgrew the pony shed, and spread all over Pleasantville. The mail got so heavy that the town had to have a bigger post office. By 1929 the seven-year-old Digest had 216,190 subscribers and was grossing more than...
Bring Back the Block. Charles Sanson I was succeeded by his son, who was in turn officially succeeded by his seven-year-old son. Young Charles III had already shown an enthusiastic talent for his inherited role by hanging tight to the legs of many unwilling clients while his father whacked away at their necks. A temporary headsman was appointed to act as regent until Charlie's arms grew strong enough to swing an ax. By the time he reached h's majority, the Sanson dynasty had become a kind of headsman's peerage. Brother Nicolas became...
...camp in Salzburg, a wide-eyed little boy ate chocolate cake and drank coffee with whipped cream for the first time in his life. With his father, mother and two younger sisters, he had just escaped from Hungary. Casually, without taking his attention from the food, the skinny seven-year-old answered a few questions. There was no need for him to concentrate; in his one year at the People's Democratic School in Budapest he had been trained well. The answers came easily and quickly...
...comrades applauded lustily and showered Togliatti with gifts. For his adopted daughter, seven-year-old Marisa Malagoli, Genoa dockworkers gave a doll which closed its eyes and pronounced "Peace, peace." For Marisa's father himself, the Genoese donated a grey, five-passenger, 30-knot motorboat ("Fast as any boat in the Italian navy," boasted the comrades). A delegation of Red youth contributed a rowing machine, to help
...last winter, seven-year-old Rachel Goodman, rummaging through a closet in her family's Manhattan apartment, came across a dusty tin box full of acetate (test) records. It took her father, Bandleader and Clarinetist Benny Goodman, a minute or two to recall what they were ("I put them away so carefully I couldn't find them...