Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trust for the kids. From now on, on the last day before Easter holidays and again before Christmas, every boy & girl at John Kerr will get a $5 bill from Charley's estate to spend as he wishes. Old Winchesterites might soon forget Peddler Charles Henry but young Winchesterites would remember him for years to come...
...gnaw Milton Berlinger no more than five years after he was born in 1908 in a Harlem tenement. He was the fourth of five children of the late Moe Berlinger, a quiet, sickly shopkeeper, and his vigorous, iron-willed wife Sarah (now Sandra). The great want sprang first in young Milton's mother, who helped earn the family living as a store detective. One day she borrowed 20? carfare to take the five-year-old boy to an amateur contest after he had done an impromptu street imitation of Charlie Chaplin. Milton won the contest, and Mom promptly went...
...dogged cubism to do newspaper cartoons, architectural prints, and color reproductions of the paintings of his famous contemporaries. In his new life, he no longer had to worry about such workaday chores. At 74, Villon was selling as never before, and he had become the toast of Paris' young painters. His new pictures, they agreed, pointed a new path for French...
When he was a young fellow, Italy's Giorgio de Chirico (pronounced keerico) was a red-hot surrealist and an inspiration to other radicals of the easel like Salvador Dali. Most of his favorite themes-the melancholy shadows of late afternoon, the animated manikins, the colonnades and lonely figures in otherwise deserted squares-have since become standard surrealist props...
...young drugstore clerk strolled into a vaudeville theater on Manhattan's Bowery to while away the time. As far as the direction of his own life was concerned, he had picked a good day. In addition to the song & dance acts, there was an added attraction-motion pictures of ocean waves. It was Joseph M. Schenck's first movie, and he could hardly believe his eyes. Said Joe: "Somebody will make a million dollars...