Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dear Dickie. Last year, for reasons never publicly told, Churchill abruptly relieved Sir Roger Keyes and installed Lord Louis Mountbatten in Combined Operations. Perhaps age was the sufficient reason: Lord Louis, at 41, was 28 years the younger. Sulfurous Sir Roger fumed that War Office bureaucrats had stymied him, implied that they wanted to get their clutches on the independent Commandos...
...things delight the Brothers Mencken more than a broken neck. Henry L. has been breaking them, as a critic for years. Now his younger bachelor brother, August, a Baltimore civil engineer, has taken time out to collect this anthology of descriptions (from contemporary sources) of 100 more or less sensational hangings...
...weekend had been something that didn't happen to most people, and Vag knew that it couldn't happen again to him--not unless he started growing younger every year. Vag was literal-minded enough to rule out this odd chance. The letter under his hand was only a formal little period to an occasion that had ended two days before. He wondered why he'd written it, now that he thought it over. The letter didn't lead on to anything else. Social habit, maybe. No. And people didn't write bread and butter notes when there...
There are still good, "adequate" younger men, who try hard to serve the nation and justify the dignity of their titles. But too often a seat in Congress is only the reward for dumb loyalty to party machines; Congress has too many members with no conception of world events, men who are no more fit to lead than any ward heeler...
Accompanying the boss of the younger generations' destinies will be General Crickson, director of New England Selective Service, who will join in answering questions from the floor...