Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This daughter is Ailsa, now aged 25. She was a small girl when her father found it necessary to divorce her young and beautiful Irish mother (Nora McMullen) in 1910-12. The parents' parting was effected with becoming dignity, and it was arranged that Ailsa and her younger brother Paul were to divide their time equally between father and mother. This they did, at first, but as she grew up, the affection lavished upon Ailsa by her father drew her most closely to him. After schooling at home and abroad and making her debut in Pittsburgh, she became...
...teacher. Tombino, large of girth, bright of eye and smile, possesses many of the good things of life and does not intend that his children shall be denied them through want of wit and learning. There is a boy of 17 who can con Vergil with any Etonian. A younger one-"Pedge" he was called-is bound for a medical career. He began by helping Tombino with the veterinary duties of the camp, and later-through Tombino's shrewdness and hospitality-acquired books on the subject from a London publicity-man, an Irishman with a bent for the free...
Life. A good place for a small boy with four younger sisters is away from home. The small boy of this book?shown solemnly erect in his Sunday clothes, clutching a prayer book, over the pompous legend,"Henry Havelock Ellis at the Age of Four"?circled the globe with his seafaring father before he was eight. The schools he later attended had no deep influence on his broadened young nature, though he became thoroughly grounded in French, German and Italian, and was not hindered in developing his taste for literature. At 15 he substituted Shelley for the Bible. Goethe...
George Kelley, one of the leading playwrights of the younger New York set, has been given the prize for the best play of the past year. His winning piece was "Craig's Wife", which is still enjoying one of the longest runs of the current Broadway productions...
...party for him. To that party was bidden the brother of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien?Young Jack O'Brien (born 1895)?who won decisions over Ad Wolgast, K. O. Brown and Young Erne, and who now owns a gymnasium like his brother's. Although 17 years the younger, he became, as the evening wore on, increasingly critical of his brother's prowess. Mr. O'Brien soon rose from his chair, led the stripling into an empty room and locked the door...