Word: young
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rolled up his sleeping bag and put on his scuffed leather flight jacket. Then he headed for Cherche-Midi military prison, on Paris' Left Bank. He told the prison concierge that as a gesture of protest against injustice, he wanted to be locked up with Jean Moreau, a young French conscientious objector whom the French police had recently jailed. The concierge was very sorry, but the director of the prison was not around; perhaps, if M. Davis came back the next morning, the director might accommodate...
...Series of Quarrels. Guay told police nothing. A slight, boyish-looking man with wavy hair, he had met Rita Morel, in a Quebec arsenal during the war. Their marriage became a long series of quarrels. Last spring Guay began going with a pretty young nightclub waitress named Marie-Ange Robitaille. Rita and her five-year-old daughter moved to her mother's home...
...were a very young married woman starting life . . ." said Mrs. Winston Churchill to the graduating class of the National Institute of Houseworkers, "I think I should try to pass the examination myself. I should feel embarrassed working together [with you] if I was doing everything badly, or if I did not know how to iron a child's frock...
This season his salary is around $40,-ooo, and he has an annoyance shared only by the most prominent young ballplayers: the gossip columnists keep trying to marry him off. Most annoying is a Winchell rumor that he is using his home-run cash to buy gold trinkets for Monica Lewis, radio's "Chiquita Banana" girl. He flatly denies the gift angle; he just has dates with her, as he does with Dancer Betty Bruce and Hollywood Starlet Peggy Nilsson. At week's end, the chief buccaneer of the Pirates was too busy trying to hit home...
...Comers. Mrs. Whitney, unlike her uptown friends who were concentrating on collecting old masters and French impressionists, decided to do what she could to encourage young hopefuls in the U.S. She opened her studio to her more promising Village neighbors, was soon holding exhibitions and buying the works of such up & comers as George Luks and Everett Shinn...