Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...review had barely hit the newsstands when the conductor's wife brushed into La Hora's office and stood before Critic Goldschmidt's desk. Madame Paray, a blonde and ample Alsatian, is about 20 years younger than her husband. She is also a loyal wife. For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German. Sighed Goldschmidt as she left: "A real Valkyrie...
...handed them a mimeographed statement. The Mayor, it explained, was retiring because of his age-he claims to be 71, is suspected of being closer to 75. "In justice to my city and my family," he said, "I must pass on the heavy burden of administrative duties to younger men." The younger man he had in mind was his nephew, Frank Hague Eggers, 46. On June 17, Eggers would officially take over as mayor, when Hague's city commissioners officially elect...
...resignation was accepted by the Board of Overseers last November, Dean Hanford commented in an interview, "I have had a lot of fun as Dean, but I think 20 years is long enough and the time has come for a younger...
...live long. They do their best to keep the oldtime atmosphere for their summer visitors, from whom they take up to $10,000 every year. But modernism is creeping in. The Nova Scotia government is going to straighten and pave Peggy's Cove Road. Says one of the younger residents, 53-year-old George Swinimer: "I'll be glad to see the pavement. The artists like Peggy's the way it is more than I do. I would like to see even a jukebox...
...picked up and brought back. Eliza is sent to respectable friends in Boston for a few weeks to get over her experience. When she returns, she discovers that Claw's raging frustration and craving for emotional revenge have led him into a calculated affair with her younger sister. The weather in Eliza's heart has already begun to change: now it becomes cold and bleak and their relationship ends with cruelty on both sides...