Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already built bonfires of her own under all home-going Congressmen who voted for Relief restrictions,* said that the sudden cut-off in Government spending was like pushing the country off a precipice. She was reminded of her uncle, Roosevelt I, who used to make herself and other young Roosevelts jump off sandcliffs at Oyster Bay, to teach them how far you slide going downhill and how hard it is to climb back up. Precisely, chimed in her husband; his latest lending program had been devised to create a gentle gradient instead of a cruel precipice...
Coupled with one more statement which he let fly last week, this Court-crowing and Congress-branding revealed Franklin Roosevelt as a President battered but unbowed, and more determined than ever to fight a whole lot more. Third revelation of his mood came in his message to the Young Democrats' convention at Pittsburgh, darkly threatening to smash the Democratic Party by walking out on it if it does not nominate a Roosevelt-approved liberal...
Called to the home of Louis Faulkner, in the tiny town of Idabel, Okla., last week, young Osteopath George Kenneth Fisher found Charles and Larrie, the four-month-old Faulkner twins, choking from whooping cough. Only oxygen administration could save them, but there were no oxygen tents within 50 miles...
...woman scrapes will read that they must not cheat. But fluttery, did-I-do-wrong girls will be happy to learn Author Dix's basic philosophy, that Balzac long ago stated more picturesquely: "No matter how black the pot may be, it can always find a lid." A young girl's fancies, suggests Author Dix, should be pretty well taken up with locating that...
...Husband, Lures Men Can't Resist, she chatters of the business of mating in the lower brackets with the kindly solicitude of a slightly prurient older sister and a hard-boiled realism that would do credit to a brothel-keeper. Sample Dix advice to the nubile: "A young girl who lets any one boy monopolize her simply shuts the door in the face of good times and her chances of making a better match. . . . The wise girl keeps a wary eye out to note how a man reacts to the money proposition before she says...