Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinctive of modern English writers. A would-be picnic in the chestnut-woods above the Italian village of Ravello results surprisingly in a 14-year-old English boy's encounter with Pan himself- to his great delight and the utter horror of all his relatives and friends. Another youngster discovers that a certain blind alley in London is the stopping-place for a line of celestial omnibuses, conducted by such defunct immortals as Shelley, Dante and Sir Thomas Browne. A curate meets a Faun. A very worthy man attempt- ing to bring up his young fiancee by hand...
...bright-faced, cheery, helpful youngster," so said E. Haldeman-Julius, Henry Ford of publishers, about Vol. I, No. 1, of his newest magazine venture (15 cents a copy, $1.50 a year). Over each of its pages it bears the heading: "KNOW THYSELF, GIRARD, KANSAS...
...signed for a bout with him on July 7: " Good! I know I can beat all those setups. Firpo's beating McAuliffe didn't amount to much. McAuliffe was young and inexperienced, and I can't see where Firpo showed great work in beating this youngster...
...west coast in those memorable years 1848-49. There is a very good touch at the beginning when the great, long column of clumsy schooners is waiting for the command to be off. The leader of the expedition hands his boy a great bull-whip and as the youngster cracks it over the backs of the first yoke of oxen his father tells him to remember that he started the first expedition to Oregon back in '48. The scene at the crossing of the Platte River is beautifully done, and gives more of a thrill than any of the other...
Vincent Richards, Yonkers youngster, buried Francis T. Hunter under the most brilliant tennis of the year and won the National Indoor Championship. Score...