Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidents who have bred sons have bred smart ones-witness President Adams the Elder, Harrison the Elder, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft." First, don't you know that President Harrison the Elder bred not a "smart son," but a son who bred a "smart son," President Harrison the younger ? Second, are you sneering at John Coolidge by omitting his name from the "smart sons?" He is "the first boy in the land" (or the "first youth." If you prefer) : and deserves no belittling by you. He is such a "smart son" that he is received into the good graces...
...almost exclusively-lawyers, doctors, architects, journalists. Few scions df the aristocracy-that-was became bank clerks, bondsellers, storekeepers. And if they were going to stay on the land, as gentlemen farmers, they did not go to college, unless it was to make friends and carouse. Martial, unruly or younger sons went to Virginia Military Institute. A few technically inclined ones went to Virginia Polytechnic...
...Young is considered one of the finest of the younger English writers, and has been compared to Conrad and Hardy by some British critics...
...George W. Wightman met Miss Margaret Blake last week in the finals of the women's national indoor singles tennis tournament on the Longwood courts, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Superior headwork enabled Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, to tire her younger opponent early in the match; to win the championship, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4. A few minutes later Mrs. Wightman and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup lined up against Miss Blake and Miss Edith Sigourney in the doubles event finals. Again Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, added to her laurels. Score: 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The gallery...
...General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, a few years younger than Senator Dill, more charming than the usual caricature of a suffragette, one of the leaders of the feminist invasion of Washington through the mud of 1913; once a Chevrolet mechanic who was rewarded with the famed "yellow suffrage car" in which she toured New York State; a chicken farmer; a collector of book plates; a licensed attorney; the manager of the $5,000,000 estate left to her and her two brothers...