Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pacifism of the Labor Government as militarist Baron Middleton challenged "The British Army has now fallen below its strength in 1895 . . . and yet . . . and yet since 1895 we have taken over the control of the Sudan and accepted the mandates of Palestine and Mesopotamia" (called "Irak" by younger...
Almost as Death came a limousine swirled up to the hospital door. Out stepped the dying woman's younger sister, Margaret of Hohenzollern, wife of the Landgrave of Hesse, who accompanied her. They hurried up the stairs?too late...
...Benet is one of the most promising of the younger school of writers, and his best known work, "John Brown's Body", had an unusually large first edition, totalling 65,000 volumes...
...jump along the platform and almost plumped into Byng of Vimy. He, deftly sidestepping, punctiliously bowed to irrepressible "Baby Betty," Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, only granddaughter and unspoiled darling of George V. When His Majesty followed the babe it was seen at once that he did look younger. His cheeks were a breeze-tanned brown. Faultlessly groomed, firm of step and with a new vitality of movement, the King-Emperor escorted Queen Mary to the waiting royal Daimler. Already Baby Betty had plumped into the back seat. "Come along, Ganpa!" piped...
...vacuum. They will therefore not be much interested to learn that in his latest book he announces what would seem to be his retirement: ". . . The Way of Ecben has appeared to its writer a thesis wholly fit to commemorate my graduation from, and my eternal leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit of gay illusions. King Alfgar dreams of a witch. He sacrifices his kingdom...