Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girls avoided the young man. He fell desperately in love with one of them, but was afraid to approach her. Naturally, no attractive young woman was going to tie herself for life to an earless young man. He fell to brooding. His devoted mother began to worry about him. She went to Dr. Allan Ragnell, distinguished Stockholm plastic surgeon, and asked him if he could remove her own ears, transplant them to the head...
Last week the young man and his sweetheart accepted congratulations from their friends: they were engaged to be married. Everyone remarked on what a fine couple they made, though some thought that, for a man, the fiance's ears were a trifle small and delicate...
When he grew up Chang moved to Chungking, married, became the "tiger painter" of his people. Even as a young man he was recognized as unsurpassed among China's 20th Century painter-poets. And throughout a 50-year career important breeders never failed to keep him supplied with the finest tigers available. One pet insisted upon acting as a pillow for Chang and his little daughter at night, another made nocturnal excursions to the bedroom for regular handouts of eggs...
...Four Seasons," to San Francisco, are the four socialite daughters of horsewhipping Mike De Young, who founded the Chronicle in 1865 and died...
Nobody has decided yet whether Pinky Smith is a young liberal who happens to be smart or a young smartpants who finds it convenient to appear liberal. But nobody denies that he has gone far in his 30 years and promises to go much farther. Twelve years ago he bummed his way across the toll bridge between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, told the bridge keeper: "I'll come back some day in my Cadillac and pay you that nickel." Last week he crossed the bridge again and lamented: "Here I am in my Cadillac and I find the bridge...