Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phil" was 43, and his five-foot-six-inch frame (shrunken at one time during his arduous campaigning to 130 lb.) "had now begun to fill and curve with adipose.*. . ." His face was florid. . . . Irene M. Rucker, his little bride, also a devout Catholic, was a score of years younger. For 14 years they lived together, and had four children, and then, deathly ill, Sheridan received from Congress the full rank of General, a rank which he held until his death two months later...
...University do not require tickets for themselves, since they are entitled to join the President's procession. In this procession, the alumni will take their places in order of seniority. The older alumni will during the Commencement exercises, have places set apart for them upon the platform. The younger members of the alumni-will have seats reserved for them elsewhere. Due however, to the rather limited number of places, it may be necessary for some of the graduates to stand...
...will be required, as "Quadrangle tickets" do not admit to the Theatre. Because of the small size of Sanders Theatre, the number of those who may attend the presentation of degrees will be very much reduced. Only alumni of at least 25 years' standing may join the procession, while younger graduates and non-graduating students will not be admitted. The Sanders Theatre tickets will be distributed to those eligible to receive them at the same time that the tickets of admission to Sever Quadrangle are sent...
...amative tradition with graceful zest and much discreet slippering through his father's seraglios and the chambers of ladies, married and otherwise, among the plebs. In this volume he survives an exile inflicted upon him by his mother's chief rival, for his courtesies to her younger and fairer sister, coming back to build wings on the palace to shelter his three chief attachments. His ever-delicate actions and long, exceedingly elevated conversations, set down like tracery on rice-paper by Lady Murasaki long, long ago, are anglicized with great felicity by scholarly Translator Waley...
...other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas, the shorter "Victory" boats (single-masted crafts with self-bailing cockpits, easy to handle in rough weather), the midget "Fish" and "Star" classes, 15-footers in which yachtmen's young sons and younger daughters dabble and pull ropes and get wet-soon these, and all the other bright pleasure craft of the Sound will be brought out of boathouses and moored at the ends of private jetties, ready for summer racing. Bronzed Captain "Juggy" Nelson, who was in charge of the races, said that...