Word: younger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unit by Emile C. Schurmacher, managing editor of The Candy Gazette. Editor Schurmacher wrote to the New York Times: "There has been a steady increase in the sale of penny candy (red hots, all-day suckers, 'lickerish' shoe laces). . . . If there is anybody who is offsetting the younger generation's contempt for the penny as a medium of exchange, it is the penny candy manufacturer...
...difference in the two generations is an advance in civilization or a deterioration in force of character, Mr. Galsworthy rather emphasizes the latter by Jon's vague back-to-nature farming venture, and Michael's disarming but nonetheless softy campaign to clean up the slums. Somehow the younger generation hasn't quite the stamina of old Soames, cynical, Victorian, who puts an indelible stamp on his generation...
Next day, a handful of Frenchmen and several handfuls of U. S. tourists-500 in all-went out to the Roland Garros Stadium at Auteuil to watch the Italians and the U. S. younger ones play...
...Albany. This had been no ordinary Prohibition raid. A very definite understanding had existed between the Federal agents and Boss O'Connell. If not molested, "The Gut" had promised to restrain itself from too-overt alcohol smugglings and rowdy boozings. Following the political tirades of Theodore Roosevelt the younger that a slimy trail of vice and corruption had crawled "to the very steps of the State Capitol," Boss O'Connell and his friends had been "making character" for the sake of Governor Smith...
...pudding in his arms as he sighted Manhattan's skyline from the deck of the Berengaria. It was consigned to Manhattan's new Hotel Piccadilly, which opened its doors last week. As credentials, Bellhop Vannard brought jealously guarded recipes of Piccadilly the Elder to Piccadilly the Younger. None of these, however, impressed immigration authorities, who rudely consigned bellhop, pudding, recipes, to Ellis Island, until Bellhop Vannard might submit proof he would not become a public charge...