Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much the discomfort as the feeling one was a prisoner, but now we are getting 48 hours on duty and 24 hours off which has very much changed the situation. The bulk of the girls are youngsters; of course I get fearfully tired of spending hours with the very young but I daresay they feel just the same about the aged. [N.B.-The writer is over 40.] I enjoyed my first leave tremendously and went into the country to see Mother. Lots of our friends are drifting back to town through sheer boredom. I fancy I shall be mentally deficient...
...exuberant Henry Ashurst was turnkey at the Flagstaff, Ariz, county jail. In 1904 he interrupted his law studies at University of Michigan long enough to marry the young Irish widow who managed Flagstaff's weather bureau. In 1912 he was elected to the U. S. Senate, has been there ever since, famous, admired for his fluent sesquipedalian style-the elegant, eloquent Henry Fountain Ashurst. Into wifely anonymity faded the little Irish woman, beloved by the few who knew her kindness...
Royal Rake. Carol's life is the story of the Rake's Progress in reverse, a tale of the dissipated, headstrong young man who got better as he got older, winding up a serious-minded, at times even enlightened, ruler. In point of fact, Carol was never a black sheep. He was as good a product as was likely to come out of the court in which he was reared-a court which reeked with corruption and vice, which was ruled by a conniving and ruthless camarilla, in which mother was pitted against son, brother against brother, sister...
Carol's father, Prince (later King) Ferdinand, anticipated his son's later escapades by falling in love with a pretty young poetess, Helen Vacarescu; according to one version he eloped to Venice and renounced his right to the throne. Finally persuaded by his uncle, old King Carol I, to return to Bucharest, he was then married to Princess Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria...
...Only fault with this reasoning was that Son Carol refused to play. A year or so of training at Potsdam, a tutor in the person of Professor Nicholas Jorga, a dogged old National Democrat who was against virtually everything the Bratianus stood for-these put unexpected backbone into the young Prince. Mother Marie was too busy hatching plots to notice that Son Carol was developing a mind of his own. She had a first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World War I, the young...