Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name. Anyone who has seen, as I have, the dreary tenement rooms in which many children live would be glad to give them little tipples of joy." [Another generous early patron was Boston's Mrs. Quincy Shaw, who at one time kept 30 kindergartens going. Once a youngster who was asked "Who is it brings the flowers adorning earth anew?" promptly piped "Mrs. Shaw...
...again, gradually began to sound out the political temper of his neighbors. Against his stubborn will he finally had to admit that ignorance and fear had drained all the political temper out of them. Here & there he found an old comrade still willing to work for freedom, or a youngster who suspected that there was something rotten in the state of Italy; but among people so burdened with fear that they dared not even pronounce the Leader's holy name (they referred to Him as ''Etcetera Etcetera") nothing could happen...
Eddie Cantor has turned up some strange talent on his radio shows, but none is much worse than little Bobby Breen, his romantic singing youngster. Filmed in a horse-and-buggy setting in the last part of the 19th century, the film "Rainbow on the River" has all the worst features of that over-romantic age. It is so bad that during the showing everyone laughed where they should have cried, and the curtain was drawn to the tune of a chorus of hisses...
Governor McMullen and Senator Hughes of Delaware came to see the ceremony when Judge Joseph Buffington, at 81 the oldest man on the Federal bench, inducted Youngster Biggs. The affair could not have been more amiable. In the first place Judge Buffington is no gaffer. He still keeps a medicine ball in his chambers which he delights to jam into the abdomens of elderly colleagues. He was married to his third wife only six years ago and still likes to go occasionally to a night club. Moreover, he remembers that he also got his start in politics at a convention...
Forty years ago in a dingy town of Lanarkshire, Scotland, when Phil Murray was 10, he went down into the mines to earn his living. Eight years later, migrated to the U. S. with his family, the studious youngster came out of the mines for good. Working twelve hours a day in a Westmoreland County, Pa. mine, he complained to the weighmaster one day that he was being short-weighted, got into a quarrel about it, knocked the weighmaster down, was fired. His fellows retaliated by organizing a union, electing young Murray president, threatening a strike...