Word: six-year-old
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...Last week Secretary Newton sped by air and rail from Washington to Minneapolis where his six-year-old son had been run over by a street car while riding a bicycle, had had a leg amputated...
...spread the bills on the kitchen table to gloat over them. Then he went to get a drink. His six-year-old son, a neat child, found the dirty scraps of paper littering the table. He swept them together, clutched them up, pushed them into the fireplace. The flames spouted and little black cinders of money blew up the chimney throat. When Ion Gerghuta came back and saw what his son had done he killed him, swiftly. In another room Ion's wife was bathing her year-old baby. She heard her son scream and ran to him. When...
...down the poop-deck. As she hauled, one morning, a delicate blue sea-horse drifted by, his head emerging perky from an island of seaweed. Joan tried desperately to scoop him up, ran to the taffrail and scooped again, but the supercilious creature escaped. Over the side plunged six-year-old Joan in its wake, swam faster and faster from the schooner, while her father bellowed orders, and the mate lowered the dinghy. The oarsmen finally caught her, but not before she had captured the anemone and thrust it in her overalls pocket. Back on board, she was more distressed...
...head of Marshall Field & Co., James Simpson runs Chicago's greatest, perhaps the world's greatest department store. Born in Glasgow, Scotland (1874), James Simpson arrived in the U. S. at the age of six. The year 1860 was a milestone in Chicago's history, for in that year its population climbed above the half million mark. James Simpson was an obscure six-year-old among the 10,000 newcomers who made Chicago a real metropolis...
Marie. Though she had no part in the ceremony, her motherly and grandmotherly heart could not be otherwise than quickening and aglow. The Speech from the Throne (of her six-year-old grandson King Mihai) was about to be read by Prince Nicholas of Rumania (her slightly weak-chinned 25-year-old son), thus opening the first freely-elected Parliament in the history of the Kingdom...