Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week 14 men met in Washington's exclusive Cosmos Club for dinner. Ostensible purpose: to honor bouncing young Herman B. Wells, president of Indiana University. Real purpose: a get-acquainted meeting for Paul Vories McNutt and the Janizariat of the New Deal...
Alive and well today are thousands of young Europeans who would likely have been corpses by now if War II had taken the course of unprecedentedly murderous War I. Meantime, one big plan for Peace II has been shaping up in Anglo-French minds on an unprecedentedly thoughtful and humane pattern. Last week there were signs that the Nazi Government had begun to realize and fear the extent to which millions of Europeans are turning to the Allied formula of ending the war not in victory & defeat but by setting up a more-abundant-life European federation into which...
...measure of the personal independence she was to demand, the young Queen refused point-blank to allow her Prime Minister to write her first public speech...
Private Life. Two years after her coronation Wilhelmina married a dashing young lieutenant of the Prussian Guards, Henry Wladimir Albert Ernst, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Prince Henry was fond of meeting up with sea captains and artists, and led a hard life playing second fiddle for 33 years in a severely formal and moral court. The Queen was far from happily married, and the Prince was far from popular with the strict Dutch. Wilhelmina came very near dying from a miscarriage. Her only child, Juliana, the present Heir to the Throne, was born in 1909. The Prince Consort died...
...They used to sprinkle beer from a watering can on the sidewalks outside the barroom to bring in the young. The smell tempted them inside. That's the way it should be with literature and poetry in college...