Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He had gone to Loyalist Spain on a British battleship, then to Madrid on a sightseeing tour. He had put up at the spacious U. S. Embassy as the guest of Francisco Ugarte, the Embassy's caretaker. Marveled young Mr. Kennedy at Madrid's fall: "Did you ever see anything like it?" After attending Palm Sunday Mass, he went to Burgos, planned to leave Spain soon and report to Father Kennedy his observations and conversations with Loyalist leaders, Foreign Minister Julián Besteiro and Colonel Segismundo Casado. Young...
...tour of Europe and the U. S. in 1936-37, the young Maharaja picked up 100 trunks full of souvenirs, including a ukulele and a 29-karat piece of the $1,000,000 Jonker diamond. He also picked up a cold in California. The nurse who took care of him while he had it was a broad-mouthed, brunette divorcee named Marguerite Lawler Branyen, who had been a nurse-stewardess on the Union Pacific R.R. In Switzerland in 1937 Indore's child bride died. Last week, in India, the Maharaja announced that, except for abdication, he had just followed...
...Veterans of Future Wars did in 1936. In Withington's room in Holworthy Hall one night last month conversation turned on his aquarium. Freshman Withington boasted that he had once eaten a goldfish. A classmate remarked it would be worth $10 to see the feat repeated. Thereupon young Withington seized one of his pets by the tail, popped it into his mouth, chewed well, won his reward...
...nine-ounce steel ball was dropped on a pane of the same glass from a height of 28 feet. The glass bulged and cracked but did not break. A young woman stood behind another pane while Chief Bender, famed oldtime pitcher, wound up and let fly a baseball at it. The glass stopped the ball...
...know the late Theodore Roosevelt. His first recording was of Theodore Roosevelt's voice, greeting Vincent's Boy Progressives League on March 4, 1913, while Woodrow Wilson was being inaugurated President after outrunning Bull Mooser Roosevelt and Republican William Howard Taft. Said Teddy to the young Bull Moosers with unsquelched heartiness and bite: "Don't flinch, don't foul, and hit the line hard...