Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Public. The reasons for Clifford's success are not hard to find. He spreads calm and good will like a road-oiling wagon. At home he is a model father to his three daughters, Margery, 15, Joyce, 14, Randall, 7. When they were younger he liked to tell them stories; particularly the story about the boy with his finger in the dike. But when business was on his mind he sometimes lost interest in the story and began mumbling about a law case. "Never mind the law case," the children would shout, "tell us about the boy with...
...Father Kumalo one day comes a letter from a brother in Christ in a Johannesburg mission. The letter informs him that his younger sister, Gertrude, is very sick. He must go to Johannesburg...
...younger Benes disclosed that he believed his uncle is living in seclusion at a home in Sezimo-Ustt, a little-known hamlet in southern Czechoslovakia...
John P. Marquond's younger daughter Blanche Ferry, 7, came down with appendicitis in Nassau, was flown to Miami for an operation, flown back again afterwards...
Doyle, 32 years younger than Cruikshank, reached his peak of delicacy and wit at 15, with the drawings for Dick Doyle's Journal and his letters to his father. When he was 19 "Dickie" went to work for the new, liberal magazine Punch, spiking the text with whimsical capital initials and borders of capering gnomes interspersed with knights in grinning visors. His Punch cover has survived to the present day, but Dickie himself, furious at Punch's antipapal policy, resigned in 1850 and turned to book illustrations which seldom matched his Punching...