Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plain in the northern Province of Wallo last week a round-eyed dark-faced kinky-haired boy of 19 stood on a rug-draped platform of dried mud. To the rattle of war drums Ethiopian chieftains with lion-mane headdresses and gold embossed shields clustered protectively about the royal youngster. Across the field rolled a white-rimmed dust cloud out of which moved a horde of 100,000 yelling black warriors. Beyond the reviewing stand the troopers halted, faced to the north, where 100 miles away lay the town of Adowa. Then to a man they...
...fathom points of view other than his own, or respect practices and opinions which he thought unreasonable. When he decided his son should learn music, he bought him a violin and hired a teacher, would not listen when his wife, the teacher, neighbors and Clarence complained that the youngster produced only horrible, tuneless sounds, insisted they were not strict enough with...
...fathom points of view other than his own, or respect practices and opinions which he thought unreasonable. When he decided his son should learn music, he bought him a violin and hired a teacher, would not listen when his wife, the teacher, neighbors and Clarence complained that the youngster produced only horrible, tuneless sounds, insisted they were not strict enough with...
...Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre silks, heavy ornaments, a gold-rimmed pince-nez. But she is as keen-eyed and lively as any youngster, joining gaily in such Metropolitan pranks as tickling fat Tenor Lauritz Melchior in Parsifal. "He is so ticklish! So he always says, 'Please, ladies. Do not! I am so ticklish!' It's great fun at the rehearsals...
...time when Indians harried construction crews, burned bridges, sometimes attacked trains and towns. Merchant Otero put his sons in boarding school, but they ran away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years...