Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When we were much younger we had the enlightening experience of reading a book about a Yalie named Frank Merriwell. The climax of the volume came when lithe, brave, dauntless, handsome Merriwell snagged a 60-yard pass out of the hands of a pair of burly Harvard men and ran ninety-nine yards for a touchdown to win the game for an underdog Eli eleven. The crowd cheered and young ladies swooned and we put down the book and decided not to spend our collegiate career, in New Haven...
...Abstract Photographer Man Ray, she formed the Socieété Anonyme, first society for collecting and spreading modern art in the U.S., started her tremendous collection under its name. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, the Société Anonyme's famed rival, is nine years younger...
...late Manhattan restaurant keeper ("Janssen Wants to See You"), Werner Janssen pounded and hacked his way to a musical career, over the grim opposition of his father, who wanted him to carry on in Janssen's Hofbrau. In the early 1930s the younger Janssen made his splash with Europe's great orchestras, was rated tops in playing Sibelius, by the great Finn himself. But when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony tried him in 1934, Janssen failed to click. He went to Hollywood, wrote the score for The General Died At Dawn, married Actress Ann Harding. For two years...
Rita's chance came in Agua Caliente. Booked for four weeks at the gaming Hotel Agua Caliente, they were a hit. The Cansinos stretched their stay to seven months. While little Eduardo could pass for a good ten years younger than his age, Rita's well-developed figure, Spanish features (topped by straight, black hair, parted in the middle) disguised her youth...
There once more Byron could be close to the Shelley circle, which had gained a new recruit in dark, hawk-nosed, piratical Edward Trelawny (The Adventures of a Younger Son) who, to Byron's annoyance, looked and acted like a Byron hero. Trelawny discovered that Byron had nicknamed Shelley "The Snake...