Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern knowledge allows, bears an affinity to romantic nostalgia that is at times a little hard to stomach. The urge that leads so many romanticists to the Catholic Church has been called the desire of the jelly-fish for the rock. God has become the rage among the younger intellectuals in Europe. "La jeune France" has deserted almost en masse, under the leadership of Cocteau, to Rome. Synthesis and escape from this world's harsh disillusionments and an all-pervading peace come with incense and liturgy...
Governor Moody is five years younger than Governor of Virginia Harry Flood Byrd, brother of Richard E. ("Dicky") Byrd, famed Pole man. Governor Moody is, then, "youngest U. S. Governor." But he is no younger than Sam Houston* was in 1827 when he became Governor of Tennessee...
...went dry in 1915 and then went crazy in 1917." Of death, he said: "It is the most merciful of all the most merciful provisions of nature." *He preserves interest in current affairs, including the oil market; owns control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie and Western Maryland railroads, which younger men wish...
...eleven stove companies back on their feet again. At the last, Death comes to apoplectic H. B. Lockhart. Significance. The volume has as much literary style as a good sales letter. But action is plentiful and the book 'is informative. It will probably furnish to younger businessmen the inspiration that its jacket advertises. Even as a relaxative its merit is far above most fiction of the idly amorous type. Also, it is probably authentic. (The country's leading stove works are now in combine.) That Villain Lockhart was founded on fact, however, is doubtful. His tactics are consistently...
Married. Marie Yvonne Dvorak, 20, niece of Composer Anton Dvorak; to John Vernon Henry, 22, onetime Notre Dame halfback; in Oakland, Calif. Her father, the composer's younger brother, was banished some 25 years ago by the Austrian government for alleged editorial treason in Prague...