Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young could not so easily dissociate himself from the Hero's role. Men-in-the-street might ignore him but in Washington he was being closely eyed by many a potent fellow Democrat as a possible presidential nominee three years hence. Last fortnight the Democracy dined at the capital in the name of harmony. The orators mentioned no names as 1932 candidates but among the diners one name was persistently whispered back and forth-Owen D. Young. He had, all admitted, done a great thing at Paris-a thing which could surely be dramatized for use in party politics...
Similarly, talk about himself for the presidency was no novelty to Hero Young, who heard quite a bit of it early last year. If he heard last week's Washington talk he did not show it but prepared, after the wedding, to present his "private citizen" self in Washington; to report with his colleague John Pierpont Morgan to President Hoover; to explain, as one economist to another, just what the Young Plan of readjusted reparations means to the U. S., as to world peace. First to bestow formal Kudos upon Hero Young was the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which last...
...Queen of the Universe' seems rather a large title. Miss Goldarbeiter would probably be amazed if she could see the young ladies on some planet one million light years away from this corner of space and those far off interstellar young women, perhaps 1,000 times as big as Miss Goldarbeiter, and each with 1,000 eyes, perhaps, would be surprised...
...Rhineland?" Brought up in Council session, Minister Briand met it by playing for time. France cannot answer, he said, until she knows 'the views of Ramsay MacDonald, newly-elected British Prime Minister. He suggested that it be settled along with other details of the Young Reparations Plan at an International Conference proposed for July or August...
...boss of both Father Girard and of William Wells, a callow underling whom Daughter Geraldine really loves. If Daughter Geraldine marries the importunate Chandler, it will mean limousines and regal delicacies for all. But if she marries the struggling Wells, according to her ambitious mother and young sister, the frustrate Chandler will immediately oust his successful rival and possibly Father Girard. Young Sister Elizabeth talks about sex right out in the open and vents a precocious materialism. She and her mother so belabor gentle Geraldine that she, cowed, consents to marry Chandler. But beforehand, with an abandon quite inconsistent with...