Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oldster Baldwin did nothing overt, last week, but presently the press was informed that youngster Wales would not make his announced trip to South Wales, where the poverty and near famine of unemployed miners is even more notorious than in the North. Rightly or wrongly correspondents thought that the Prime Minister's large, flabby hand had stayed the Prince...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 55, is 5 ft, 10 in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., and has six children. As a youngster he broke stone and split wood on his father's estate in Cleveland for 15¢ an hour, also earned 5¢ an hour for practicing on the violin. Now he keeps in condition by playing squash and using gymnasium apparatus. He is one of the quietest men in the public...
...Robert Wright Stewart, 62, is 6 ft., 1 in. tall, weighs 240 Ibs., and has four children. As a youngster he drove oxen on his father's farm near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Now he plays golf and goes to prize fights. He is one of the burliest and most outspoken men in the public...
...superintendent, one Hickey, expressed gratitude by not forgetting. Three months later the new Colorado & Southern shop foreman at Trinidad, Colo., was a tireless, driving, hardheaded youngster named Walter Chrysler. Other railroads heard, needed, beckoned. After a bit the superintendent of motive power of the whole Chicago & Great Western system was a new man named Chrysler. "W. P." they called him, aged...
Connecticut's Fenn is a patient, high-minded 72-year-oldster. Homer Hoch of Kansas is an electric, driving "youngster" of 49. It is not likely that Mr. Fenn will catch the Homer nodding but neither is it likely that the Hoch logic will persuade the big-state delegations to vote down Mr. Fenn's long-laid plan...