Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anita Loos, literary executor of the golddigger (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), threw up her hands at the wild younger generation, came out for more parental discipline-"you ought to smack him in the puss." She considered bobby-soxers inferior to flappers. "The flappers washed their underwear," said she. "They were neat, sexy, appealing and clean. The bobby-soxers are gross . . . they are not alluring...
...years younger than the average TIME editor, she does not, of course, share his experience (14 years) in journalism. Half of our researchers came to us by applying for their jobs, by recommendation of other researchers or editors, or by chance; the rest turned up via our college-trainee system, as copy girls, etc. All but a few have held other jobs-as researchers of all types; reporters, copyreaders and editors for various periodicals; as private secretaries, ballistics experts, ski salesmen, economic analysts. One spent ten years in the U.S. Foreign Service; another taught riveting & drilling in an industrial plant...
...Road of the Exquisite." Good times and tourist dollars had smothered the revolutionary fire in younger Mexicans. Today's artists were more interested in painting to please the multitude of nouveaux riches than in refighting battles already won or lost. "Now," mourned Siqueiros, "60% of our painters have left our school in favor of that of Paris. Our school is social, heroic, and monumental. They are going, more or less, on the road of the exquisite, of the snob...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...
Forcing the play throughout the match, Fox used his booming service and a powerful forehand drive from the baseline to subdue his younger opponent with little trouble. Only once in the entire match was Brady able to win a game on his own service, while Fox's supremacy was threatened only in the early stages of the second set when the Freshman ace battled on even terms for the first four games...