Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came the army to Swindon, footsore & weary. No luring damsels could entice the younger men away for a frolic; no Labor hosts could tempt the elders to a reception. Instead, the army lay on its back and practised the songs that it would sing passing through London. One, called the "Rebel Song," went...
Came the army to Slough on the very outskirts of London. Here Labor sympathisers held a picture show lor the weary old "soldiers" of the army, while the local maidens, also Labor, staged a dance for the younger set, sore feet...
Came the army to Bristol, first stop, where the good citizenry served tea to the foot-weary marchers and where pretty girls coaxed the younger marchers to trip a measure of jazz dancing with them. Later, the rolling kitchen got busy and soon after night fall a one-legged war veteran was serving hot food to the cry of "roll up"-the equivalent of the U. S. "come...
...Candida. The faintly Galsworthian throes of this London hit give him opportunity to squirm and ogle with an excess of youth every time he sits down in a chair. The most finished performance is supplied by Ann Andrews, brought surprisingly into the second act to give the younger female fanatics the benefit of her life story. Her beauty and the sure delicacy of her acting lend a brief element of perfection to a comedy hampered by fitful mediocrity...
...danger of losing much of the ground gained during and since the War in making salaries more nearly match the work done," warned Dean Arthur Herbert Wilde of Boston University's school of education last week. "Teachers now in service need to advise very carefully all their younger friends who are looking toward teaching. Unless they have strong purpose and scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent occupation, not a makeshift until he or she studies...