Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could carry--some deathless gem which could be summarized in a few words for the "Reader's Digest." Up to now, no such moral has come to mind, but later on it may be possible to find some connection between the heat wave and the moral degradation of the younger generation or the spiritual decay of Liberalism...
Illinois' Governor Dwight H. Green, interrupting a vacation to visit the scene, reported that all state mine-safety laws had been complied with. John L. Lewis, interrupting a visit to his mother in Springfield, Ill., was greeted at Old Ben's tipple by his younger brother, 54-year-old, publicity-shy Howard Lewis.* Underground superintendent for No. 8, Howard had luckily not been below when the blast occurred...
...Warren could think of 14 writers (half of them poets) who, he thought, were doing "good work." Book-of-the-Month Club Judge Marquand, whose job is to find books he can extol, finds that "the older writers have said about all they can be expected to say. The younger writers have something inside themselves that's new and different . . . . They aren't trying to write like Hemingway . . . . Lately things have been picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean (The Mountain Lion...
Died. Yomejiro Noguchi,* 72, Japanese poet and professor who in his younger days came to the U.S., married a Bryn Mawr girl (their son: Manhattan Sculptor Isamu Noguchi), then went back to Tokyo, where he discarded his Western wife and ideas, became a great booster of Japanese imperialism; of stomach cancer; in Toyooka, Japan...
...first day at Pamplona, it looked as if the great annual festival would be an anticlimax. Pepín Martín Vasquez, who has built up a reputation as one of the best of the younger men, was very bad. El Andaluz, an old hand, was just plain dull. But the bulls were bad that day, and the crowd tended to make excuses...