Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killed in Action. Captain Peter Wood, 26, of the Yorkshire Dragoons, younger son of Lord Halifax; somewhere in Egypt...
...Tedder took his sketchbook, wandered away for a few days, returned and wordlessly dug himself into his work. The only sign of his deep grief, in days to come, was a sharpening of his cutting humor. He has two other children, a daughter in the W.A.A.F. in England, a younger son still in school...
...seven-year contract with Paramount. Into a movie as vocalists with jump-&-jive Bob Crosby's band went a pair of richly endowed twins (see cut): scrumptious Lee & Lynn Wilde, 18, who swore they were the grandnieces of Epigrampus Oscar Wilde. In Miami, Albert John Capone, younger brother of Scarface Al, changed his family's name to Rayola...
...Mary Rafferty stayed at the heart of the Scott family life. From " 'tween maid" she became the trusted equal of the younger generation of Scotts. But because of her shanty birth she would never marry her lover, Paul Scott. Instead, she raised the children of his half-crazy wife, lived on unmarried in the lonely mansion after Paul's death...
...which lay strewn on the path in the Yard, he noted a High School freshman walking towards him. There was nothing extraordinary about that, as it was nearing 2:30 o'clock, but then he noted a History One syllabus under the youth's arm. "These Freshmen are getting younger and younger each term," he exclaimed. The incident quickly slipped from his mind as he headed towards Mass. Hall, and then turned in between Hollis and Harvard. As he passed the doorway of Holden Chapel, with its white and black sign proclaiming the transformation to a "U.S. Navy Storeroom...