Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was when the Cherokee Times stepped in. Commercially it seemed a good bet to get permission, quickly granted, to publish Scarlet Sister Mary serially. Intellectually it was exciting for Editor-Publisher George B. Lay, 32, and his two young associates-Thomas Freeman and W. Wells Alexander, each 22-to awaken Gaffney from what they, as college men, called its "uncultured daze.'' Moreover, there was, as Mrs. Peterkin said in her letter to Mr. Lay, the possibility that Librarian Pearson had eaten something disagreeable the morning she proscribed the book...
...YOUNG MRS. GREELEY-Booth Tarkington-Doubleday, Doran...
Author Tarkington has often before but never more mercilessly demonstrated his knowledge of smalltown wives. In Young Mrs. Greeley he involves two of them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young...
...Engineer Frederick A. Kolster. Born in Geneva, Switzer land, transported to Boston, Mass., at the age of two, Mr. Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed, because his father had been engaged to play a violin with the Boston Symphony. Young Kolster therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered the Cambridge Manual Training School where he "prepped" for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still attending...
...Detroit last week the young, sanguine U. S. tennis team won the American zone Davis Cup preliminaries by taking five matches from some torpid Cubans (Ricardo Morales, Herman Uppman, Gustavo Vollmer). The youngsters-Wilmer Allison, John Hennessey, George Lott, John Van Ryn-then sailed for England, there to team with William Tatem Tilden II and Francis T. Hunter. This U. S. sextet will play the winner of the English-Italian European zone finals for the privilege of meeting France, possessor of the Davis...