Word: youngest
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Dwight F. Davis, 46, the youngest member of the Cabinet, came out of the Middle West. He was graduated from Harvard in 1900. In those days he was a great tennis player, No. 2 on the U. S. list of singles players. He gave the Davis cup, which year by year has grown more famous, and in 1900 and 1901 he was on the team defending it. One of his contributions to tennis was the reverse twist service. But he went back to his native St. Louis and went into public life as a promoter of parks and playgrounds...
...Paul has a Mayor. He is only 30-the youngest mayor ever elected there. An American Legion man, popular in his crowd, he has given the city a business administration, progressive and clean. He is an Elk, a Mason, a Redman, a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, with a slack, ready mouth, a touch of Irish in his nose, a touch of Scandinavian in his cheek bones, and a pair of spectacles. His name is Arthur E. Nelson...
...countries. Prince Olaf is the only child of the King and Queen of Norway and has just spent a year at Baliol College, Oxford, England; he is 22. Princess Astrid (a Scandinavian name pronounced "Arstree") is just 20 and is a very pretty girl; she is the youngest daughter of Prince Charles of Sweden, a brother of the King. Her father Prince Charles is one of the handsomest men in Europe. Princess Astrid is very Scandinavian in her looks and is taller than Prince Olaf; this is a good thing as, though the Norwegians are very fond of their young...
Died. Ruth Echo Silver Dollar Tabor, 30, youngest daughter of the late millionaire U. S. Senator from Colorado, H. W. A. Tabor; in Chicago, in a room which she and an unknown man had taken as "Mr. and Mrs. Norman," of burns sustained when a kettle of boiling water overturned. "Silver Dollar" was added to her name by W. J. Bryan, of whom Senator Tabor was a staunch supporter. Said her sister, one Mrs. John Last, wife of a wealthy Milwaukee business man: "I have never approved of my sister's life ... I can see no reason...
...country's leading biophysicists, Dr. Little is the youngest of the heads of state universities. He is 37 years old, one year younger than Glenn Frank, former editor of the Century magazine, who is now President of Wisconsin. President Little was called to Michigan last July, shortly after he had resigned from the Presidency of Maine...