Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lenox, Mass., last week, died Henry White, onetime (1905-07) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1907-09) Ambassador to France, and Peace Commissioner to the Peace Conference at Paris (1918). The younger generation perhaps associates his name chiefly with his Paris mission, though there he played a necessarily subordinate part...
...Fascist-controlled press of Rome displayed last week a little story, perfect as a gem, concerning small Bruno Mussolini, 9, younger son* of II Duce. Bruno's schoolteacher, it seemed, was recently examining him in grammar and desired to elicit the information that, in Italian, a verb may take the imperative mood in the second or third person but not in the first. "Now Bruno," said the examiner, "tell me in what person one cannot command...
Madame X. Seventeen years ago this drama was seen through tears, to the accompaniment of sniffles. Even today, strong men in the audience rise quickly after the last curtain to pull their hats down over their faces. Sophisticated younger people seem to be unaffected, probably critical of the necessity, on the part of a young lady who has deserted her husband, of going straight to harlotry and ether. This the heroine does, returning to France to see her boy whom she left 20 years ago. To save his reputation, she commits murder. The boy is assigned to defend...
...Hammond, Ind., one day last week and again in Chicago, a 16-year-old girl tried out as a professional evangelist. She was Roberta Star Semple, daughter of Aimee Kennedy Semple McPherson, prosperous Baptist evangelist of Los Angeles. Roberta was beginning her career at a younger age than did her mother. But she had her mother to help...
Authors Upton Beall Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis are sometimes confused in the casual mind and not only because of their names. As penmen they are stylistic cousins of whom the younger and cleverer-Mr. Lewis-has far surpassed in ability and notoriety his more intellectual and radical elder. Yet when Sinclair Lewis was but a redheaded young yahoo learning at Upton Sinclair's colony, Helicon Hall (Englewood, N. J.), the rudiments of a Socialism which he was later to abandon for a creed 100% egocentric, Upton Sinclair was already a celebrity by inversion, a rebel whose voice of loud...