Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright young boy, one of the great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdays-your own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church calendar assigned to your patron saint. Last week cannons booming at dawn woke Bucharest to help celebrate little King Mihai's real birthday, his eighth. In, the ornate National Cathedral, His Majesty, proud of his first long trousers, marched up the aisle with green-&-gold Generals to hear a Te Deum, marched down again to review two squadrons of the royal bodyguard...
...carefully invested. The investors were Selected Industries, Inc., an investment company headed by R. S. Revnolds and the affiliated Reybarn Co., both of which are units in the $200,000,000 group of holding companies headed by Chas. D. Barney & Co. The investment was the purchase of Thomas Young Nurseries, Inc., of Bound Brook...
...purchase was consistent with a policy of investment in standard commodities. The demand for orchids is constantly increasing, and the price has been stable. Only companies with large capital, long experience, and adequate plant facilities can supply the increasing demand. All these conditions are met by the Thomas Young Nurseries, largest orchid growers in the world. The 28 Young greenhouses are spread over 55 acres. Inside these greenhouses, where the native climate of each species of orchid is reproduced, are some 500,000 orchid plants, ranging from seedlings in little glass tubes to blooming flowers, with stems inside specially corked...
...public and when I'm not it's nobody's business." She did not hurry out to Chicago for the great opening night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without his languid charm, upon Miss Garden's bounty. "He is di-vine!" she says, kissing her fingertips as she has seen the French do. "And 7 discovered...
...Hallie Stiles is a not unlovely young woman from Syracuse who sings soprano and has made herself a name at the Opera Comique (Paris). Her banker-husband has modified his life to suit hers...