Word: younger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years ago when the British Labor Party was younger, louder and relatively impotent, Britain's Trades Union Congress met in annual convention. Red flags were much in evidence, Communists were greeted enthusiastically. British Laborites presented a gold watch to Moscow's Tomsky. And little lean Ben Tillett, one of the founders of the Labor Party, made a speech which, according to one observer "was so violent, frantic and ruthless in his call for a revolution that many persons in the audience drifted away startled and horrified...
...growing success of his early days on the stage, he wore a slight, sharp mustache; his sloping shoulders and handsome, expressive hands gave him distinction. He has been in pictures for 15 years, now plays the district attorney or the husband oftener than the hero, gets fewer letters than younger stars, but has established his reputation as one of the most skillful actors in Hollywood. He is married, six feet tall. Some of his good pictures were The Doctor's Secret, The Divine Lady, Sorrel...
...leaders and senatorial candidates. The Senate seat now occupied by white-goateed Frederick Huntington Gillett is open to the 1930 election. Aged 78, an officeholder for a half-century, he is the Senate's best contract bridge player but otherwise has left no large impress upon its history. Younger men want his place, but he has volunteered to step aside only for Citizen Calvin Coolidge...
...quidnunc murmured: "Easy guess where the two Morrows are going, but where did they come from?" The answer was : they came from Canada, from a farm not far from Toronto. The history of Brother Frederick is a good deal the shorter of the two. He is 13 years the younger. He is only 42, tall, dark, clean-shaven. His business career has been mainly in Canada although more than once he has joined forces with his brother on both sides of the border. He is a director of the Bank of Toronto and in a chain of Canadian enterprises allied...
Defense attorneys soon proved that the two younger women were lying, that they were out gadding with men the night of the alleged crime. Mrs. Lynn admitted she had perjured herself...