Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that goes wrong. He is fired from college, takes to drink, involves himself with a designing chambermaid-all because his father spent too much time at the office and not enough at his offspring's elbow making friends. The father gets himself badly denounced by the flimsy youngster, who thereupon manages to pick himself up and fall in love with the proper girl...
...enough to keep me alive to this age-but what matters to me most now is my friends. You are in business for profit, of course. You doubtless count yourselves lucky get as much advertising as you do for a paper that compared to me in years is a youngster. But do you think you will make any more money will amount to if you lose your friends...
...persuaded to give ear to his excited servant, who was vainly struggling to enter the courtroom. When at last he came to the door, he was told by the groveling servitor that a fine, fat boy had been born to his wife. Home went Bhuban, to behold the youngster whom he was to name Chitta Ranjan...
...Foster Kennedy, neurologist of Cornell University Medical College, last week published hints for parents: "Don't keep the child tied to his mother's apron strings. . . . Let him pay for his mistakes. . . . Most people like to be thought out of the common, and if a youngster finds he can acquire a reputation for eccentricity by refusing to take his food or lying down and kicking, he will do so in and out of season. . . . Remember your child is an adult in miniature with an intense emotional life which is trying experiments through his waking hours. And these experiments...
Barbara Frietchie. All popular folk must expect to have liberties taken with them. Witness Wales, and now Whittier's heroine. As in the play by Clyde Fitch, Barbara of the silver screen appears as a youngster of twentysomething, author not only of America's first permanent wave but also of love in the bosom of her brother's West Point classmate, Cadet Trumbull. The Civil War interrupts their incipient idyll. Cadet Trumbull is a Northerner, the Frietchies being, it will be remembered, one of the finer families of slaveholding Frederick, Md. When the times comes for Barbara...