Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Head Usher Irwin Hood Hoover of the White House warmly greeted the young man whom he well remembered as Archie Roosevelt...
...freshman year, Miss Henry was discussing rock specimens with Prof. Branner in his laboratory. A stocky, serious-looking young man came in. He was a senior. Prof. Branner introduced him and said: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous age. What do you think. Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
...Owen D. Young. Principal author of the Dawes Plan, he has served Europe as the all-wise financial consultant on reparations. Great has been his work; small has been his talk...
...adopted an anti-parading ordinance. Last week some 90 strikers maneuvered about the town in mass formation, dodged the police, jeered. They were set upon by a dozen officers with clubs and bayonets. Two strikers, aged 15 and 16 were arrested, lodged in jail. Mrs. Callie Jones saw her young son in the melee, rushed to pull him forth, was arrested for profanity...
...suicide?so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English, but the better ones are French?"Les Ananas" and "Valentine." Best shot: young David Durand beginning to cheer up when Chevalier puts on a three-cornered cap and plays the drum...