Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assembled before an odd-shaped candelabra, a candleholder with nine sockets-eight in as straight array as a well drilled military squad, the ninth in the solitude of the leader, the pilot. Each evening the paterfamilias, as family priest, lit the pilot, handed it most carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden...
LITTLE SEA DOGS AND OTHER TALES OF CHILDHOOD - Anatole France-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Entertainment for the youngest generation. Beautifully garnished in color and otherwise...
...wealthy Turkish sympathizers still enable him to keep up a modest villa, but it is alleged that a few weeks ago he was nearly evicted for nonpayment of rent, and it is said that he has been obliged to dispense with even the German governess who formerly attended his youngest...
...town of Rhenish Bavaria one Sara bore to one Lazarus Straus three sons. The first-born he named Isidore; the second he named Nathan; the youngest, Oscar Solomen. Isidore, after distinguished years as merchant, banker and Congressman, lost his life, a hero, in the Titanic disaster. Nathan is now 77 and Oscar Solomon is 75, and for more than a generation their portraits have appeared in the public prints of the U. S. as frequently as that of Santa Claus. Nathan is the passionate philanthropist. No sooner does he make a nickel (Abraham & Straus, R. H. Macy, emporia) than...
...recalled that the elder Madjariow had vigorously urged a pro-Ally attitude upon the Bulgarian Government up to the very moment when Bulgaria threw in her lot with the Central Powers. His son rose to political prominence early in life, and was "one of the youngest and most popular majors ever installed at Sofia...