Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomatic officers, forewarned of a Hoover shakeup, were honestly apprehensive lest the President increase commercial attaches' prestige at their expense. Only President Hoover himself can say whether they are unduly alarmed, but symptoms of his impatience, in the past, with the social graces of younger diplomatic secretaries, have not been wanting...
...that the vehicle would be more than a sentimental nimbus around the small Lee smile. They found instead an amusing and at times witty farce involving the efforts of a mother to keep a husband, from whom she is separated, from stealing his son. Lee (4 in May) is younger and funnier than Jackie Coogan was when he made The Kid with Charles Chaplin. Best shot: Sonny Boy in the clothes-hamper...
...student body. Men are kept back from advanced study until they possess the necessary key to unlock the storehouse of much knowledge. Considerable time, as well, is spent in elementary work that might better be done in lower schools where the mental discipline would be more keenly beneficial to younger minds, and where there would be no time taken from other more advanced subjects...
Cambridge, March 15--Rumor has it that those worshippers of the Muses who have reached their third year at Harvard will do homage tonight at the shrine of Terpsichorean. The affair will be one of the most exclusive of the year for the younger set. The Jovian officials whose habitat is the classic shades of University Hall have maintained a sphinx-like silence...
...HENRY SEIDEL CANBY, Editor of the Saturday Review of Literature: "Briton Hadden was one of the most resourceful, energetic and original editors of the younger generation. He had a great career ahead of him and a great achievement behind in his share in the establishing of TIME. He was one of those men who shows their powers early and realize all expectations. I knew him as an undergraduate editor of a college daily-afterwards as the pioneer of a new kind of magazine and as a prophet of an accomplished success in the magazine world, just as energetic...