Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than abject abstinence. That the amendment was not framed in a suitable way to attain that end, that it has not even attained its literal object, may be true but as assertions, these beliefs do not prove that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...
Married. Herbert ("Zeppo") Marx, 26, youngest of the famed Marx brothers; to Marion Benda,t 23, Follies blonde now playing in the Marxian Cocoanuts...
...London, earlier in the week, Prince George, youngest son of the King Emperor, entered the booth of a crystal-gazing fortune teller, laid down a crown. . . . "Your father," said the seer, "was a sea captain but he has retired." Prince George nodded encouragement. His father, the King Emperor, did indeed command H. M. S. Melampus in his youth. "Your eldest brother . . . wait, young man . . . you must warn him! I see him in the crystal. . . . It is tomorrow. He rides in a race and I see him fall. . . ." Laughing, Prince George strode from the booth. Later he warned Edward of Wales...
...voices of the Emperor, his relatives and friends, his Chancellors, Ministers and Generals, his courtiers and officials." Out of their own mouths these men condemn themselves-but of very different offenses than were attributed to them during the War. Says the author: "The War-years, to which the youngest reader can bear witness, receive the least extended treatment-for they were merely the logical epilogue to the psychological prologue." Since the author virtually steps down and lets his characters tell their own story, the book is an invaluable mine of quotations from the memoirs and autobiographies of Imperial Germany...
Captain Cazalet, who is one of the youngest members of Parliament said that he considers a trip to the United States most instructive and useful to an Englishman in public life. He also believes it beneficial for Americans to get a first hand knowledge of England...