Word: younger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus girl had younger brother. His name was Frank--to make the story brief--The Witch with help from still another Contrived to make "Our Frank--a thief!" When Sister sought the Witch's aid, Markham was his name, she found him in his lair. She cried, "Where is the money Brother paid?" The Ralstons found her there...
...weren't for sentiment?"; and answered his own question by reviving Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play with the the stage-folk of yesterday: John Drew, Mrs. Whiffen, Otto Kruger, Effie Shannon, Henrietta Crosman, Wilton Lackaye, O. P. Heggie. He tossed in a few of the younger luminaries, too: Pauline Lord...
...grown to be synonymous with the new era, not only because of his actual results which abound in daily life, but also because of his remarkable character which has never admitted defeat and which is based on the fundamental qualities of all that is best in human nature. The younger generation offers its congratulations to one of its staunchest defenders...
...Inglesham Round House, holds two feet of water, of varnished and translucent brown?the brown of old sherry." Though we are here reminded that Elder Brother Morley is prouder of his taste in wine than of his taste in literature?which he takes for granted?the Thames wanderings of Younger Brother Morley are as rich and heady as though the water were turned into brown old wine with the Wife of Bath's passing. An apparently genuine "treasure cipher," its decipherment and what ensued give to the tale an almost spirituous tang...
...extension work carried on by many universities on a wholesale scale is very often of doubtful value. On too many occasions it is given by second and third raters in the faculty or younger then whose interest lies elsewhere. There is a certain taudriness, a back-yards atmosphere. It is particularly noticeable that the vocational rather than the cultural element is emphasized. That is all very well for the vocational school but it is hardly consistent for the arts college...