Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...
...short time German planes circled the boat. "As each bomber swooped down on us, [the sailors] shook their fists and yelled what sounded like 'Flu, Flu, Flu.'* I laughed at them. . . . But it really was ghastly of those bombers to do that-it made those fine, strong, young Norwegian seamen feel so very helpless, against those with whom they have...
Down-to-earth is Playwright Howard's tale of an elderly Italian winegrower in the Napa Valley who courts a San Francisco waitress by mail, palming off his handsome young foreman's photograph as his own; of the girl's disillusionment on seeing him, her going through with the marriage, her transgression with the foreman. It is a triangle story solved by arithmetic, not geometry. The girl most wants a home, the old man a wife, the young man his freedom. So Playwright Howard, without cynicism, urges his bewildered people to be sensible, and quietly laughs melodrama...
Four years ago, when Emil Hurja was a Democratic statistician quietly estimating how many votes his boss would get for the Presidency, his staff in Washington included a young man named James Twohey. It was Mr. Twohey's job to analyze newspaper opinions, turn them into charts and figures for Mr. Hurja...
Baseball fans, aware that the Yankees have most of the best young baseballers in the U. S. tucked away on their farms, wondered if they would live to see, ever again, a pull-devil-pull-baker World Series...