Word: youngest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Holyoke, youngest son of a pre-colonial Massachusetts family, was in his third year as a dropped freshman at Harvard. English A had begun to lose its fascination for him; the dining halls had made him a chronic dyspeptic; in short, life was dull. It was at this time that romance came into his life with young Betty Buxom. From the very first kiss they loved each other passionately. Then followed midnight swimming parties at Revere, so gay, so free, so So. One night, however, when they were frolicking about like water babies, Charles discovered to his great grief...
Prince George, youngest son of the King and Queen, was parted from his tonsils on an operating table in Buckingham Palace. His recovery was rapid...
...Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a choir of twelve women sang Nearer, My God, to Thee at an honorary memorial service for Fanny Crosby, hymn writer. The youngest of these women was Mrs. Emma Ankeny, 74; the oldest Mrs. Mary Burke, 92; average age of the twelve...
...Alexander of 167 East 74th Street, Manhattan, gave a party. The oldest of her guests was 13 and the youngest two were five. Mrs. Alexander is the mother-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Her guests were: Grace, 13; Theodore, III, 10; Cornelius, 9; Quentin, 5 (children of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.); Edith, 9 (daughter of Ethel Roosevelt Derby); Kermit, Jr., 9; Willard, 7; Clochet, 5 (children of Kermit Roosevelt...
...Only a short time before, he had written rudely to the same person in answer to a demand for surrender, telling the Riff leader in Arabic vernacular to go and eat coke; but circumstances alter cases, and Raisuli went so far to the other extreme as to offer his youngest daughter in marriage to Abd who, apparently, accepted the offer. But Raisuli, Lord of the Mountains, as he was called, was not to get off so easily. Abd ordered him and his family transferred to the Riff country, the rough mountainous district in the interior of the Spanish Moroccan zone...