Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That chop was the beginning, perhaps, of an Economy Congress. Or perhaps it was the fall of a fresh, young, oat-feeling Congress into the trap of a master politician. Franklin Roosevelt certainly did not worry unduly, knowing that in this era of a Permanently Unbalanced Budget, Congress would have a hard time taking his dare to economize generally-on pensions, Social Security, national defense...
Kidnapper Rufus McCain, Robbers Henri Young and William Martin surrendered. It took a bullet through both legs to stop Kidnapper Dale Stamphill. For Arthur ("Doc") Barker, kidnapping associate of Alcatraz' notorious inmate Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, it took a shot in the head and death...
...rich countries are getting poorer," boasted plump Dr. Walther Funk, Reichsminister of Economics, in Rome last week, "and the young poor ones getting richer...
Victim of "one of those goddam spurious Irish colleges," Carroll as a young man lit out for Glasgow. There for 15 years, living in the slums himself, he taught slum children about "who discovered America and other such nonsense." He wrote plays which got a hearing at Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, but brought in little income. England and Scotland ignored him. The U. S. success of Shadow and Substance last year gave Carroll his first independence, enabled him to quit teaching, buy an old country villa...
...Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers) is 44 years old, and looks it. In a way this is a compliment, for most farces of 44 look twice their age. In Wilde's long stage joke of what happens when one young man invents an invalid friend and another young man invents a dissolute brother, there are still pleasant stretches. Lady Bracknell, "a monster without being a myth," is still an amusing snob. Miss Prism is still a funny old maid. And Wilde is still the most brilliant epigrammatist in the modern theatre...