Word: young
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After the Civil War, several Negroes were elected from Southern States to take seats in the House of Representatives. Soon those Negroes nominated youths of their own race for the U. S. service academies at Annapolis and West Point. In 1873 two young Negroes passed the Annapolis entrance examinations and were admitted. Within the year both resigned, because of "deficiencies in their studies." The next year, another Negro went to study at the Naval Academy. Before his plebe (first) term was out he was dismissed, for using "profane and vile" language to a classmate...
...fared the only Negroes ever admitted to Annapolis. At West Point, Negroes have fared better. Of twelve who were sent to West Point, three were graduated. The bones of one of them, Col. Charles Young, today rest in sacred Arlington as recognition of work well done in far-off Liberia...
Throughout the world last week all Jews celebrated the last day of the Passover feast.* But in the three great centres of Jewry?historic Jerusalem, young Tel Aviv and New York City?the celebrations differed vastly...
...MERRY HEART−Frank Swinnerton−Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A "promising first novel" is distinctly more the vogue than "another book by. . . ." Frank Swinnerton, long-accepted writer of suave character studies, also wrote a First Novel, and it won him "immediate recognition as a young writer of distinction." Published now in this country, The Merry Heart is subtitled "A Gentle Melodrama," involving as it does the death of villain and the charming capers of a gay, cynical young hero. The complicated plot is only less fortuitous than that of Swinnerton's latest novel, A Brood of Ducklings...
...Angeles, Calif., twin sisters married twin brothers at a twin wedding two months ago. Twin Wives Louise and Lucy Young last week filed twin divorce suits in Los Angeles' Superior Court against Twin Husbands W. Byrl and Alvin Earl Young. Twin charges: the twin husbands' parents had told the twin wives they were only twin boarders...