Word: teens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, the Royal Roost, hoping to heighten bebop's moral and intellectual tone, opened a milk bar for teen-agers in the yellow leather corral. A learned study of bebop by Jazz Columnist Leonard Feather was under way, and a letter had been dispatched to Bernard Shaw to get his opinion on the whole thing...
...Stockholm, the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen recently conducted a debate between teen-agers on "Youth and the Church." Their comments seem to bear out Waugh's indictment. "I have not been to church since confirmation," declared Bobby-Soxer Karin Eriksson; "I don't want to be a slave to any God." "And I don't go to church because I cannot stand the overbearing condescending manners of preachers," stated Gunnel Sandstrom. "What we need," said 18-year-old Gustaf Renneus of Kungsholm, "is a priest who is also a sportsman, one who talks our language without any humbug...
Benefactress. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Gertrude Minor was arrested for sponsoring teen-age drinking parties, protested that she only "wanted to keep the kids off the streets...
...train at White Plains, N.Y. one morning last week tumbled 60 teen-aged boys of all shapes and sizes. In little knots, shouting to each other, they raced through the crowd of commuters on the platform and loped down the stairway at the north end, two steps at a time. Nearly 40 of them squeezed into the first bus with the other passengers for Mamaroneck Avenue; those in back jammed open the rear door so that three more could slip in. The bus driver slid from his seat, ran back and plucked out the culprits like so many ripe peaches...
...Fraternity Row is a neighborhood of teen-age Little Scorpions Clubs, each with its secret grip, passwords and recognition signals. It may well be that all fraternities are using the same grip without knowing it, but . . . secrets of this caliber . . . can never be divulged, let alone compared...