Word: six-year-old
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...tight sweater who resignedly passed a small basket. The meeting started again as Trainor rasped: "Anybody's got a question, go ahead and ask." A tall student in the back questioned Trainor's facts concerning the formation of the Republican Party. "Aw hell," the speaker blurted. "My six-year-old kid asks more intelligent questions than that." A white-haired listener snickered to his wife: "Only because he expects intelligent answers...
Every Thursday afternoon, protocol permitting, a six-year-old American boy named Stephen Rutter will be excused from his private school on London's fashionable Eaton Square long enough to go to Buckingham Palace and obey, by approximation, an admonition of the late Mayor Big Bill Thompson of Chicago, to wit: "Punch King George in the snoot." The target will be George V's great grandson, Prince Charles, heir to the throne of Britain. Stephen, the son of a second secretary of the U.S. embassy, was picked last week to be a sparring partner for five-year-old...
...accordance with their ability to cooperate. At what? At cooperating. "The children are supposed to learn democracy by underplaying the skills of intellect and overplaying the skills of gregariousness and amiability-skill democracy, in fact, based on ability to do something, tends to survive only in athletics." The six-year-old group helps form its own other-directed character with the harsh judgment "He thinks he's big!" Everyone is cut down to size...
CYRUS EATON, wily old (70) boss of Cleveland's Otis & Co. and the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, was helped up, then knocked down, by the U.S. Government. Otis was cleared by the Securities & Exchange Commission of six-year-old charges that it welshed on a $10 million deal to help float stock for Kaiser-Frazer Corp. But Internal Revenue agents handed Eaton a $1,570,000 bill for back income taxes (1943) on a $1,909,000 profit he made by transferring stock between two Canadian iron-ore companies...
...statistics like an unwelcome stepchild. The most pressing statistical needs now are new censuses of business, manufactures and mineral industries. All are old; the most recent-business-was last made in 1948. Since that time radical changes have occurred; whole new industries have sprung up to make the six-year-old figures obsolete. Although the Budget Bureau authorized $8,340,000 for such censuses, the House hooted the appropriation down as an elegant, high-domed boondoggle...