Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deck of the Queen of Bermuda, three hours out of Hamilton bound" for Manhattan, a husky youngster in knee breeches stepped bravely up to a steward. "My name is Wainwright," said he. "I'm a stowaway, sir, and I'd like some supper." No penniless adventurer was Carroll Livingston Wainwright Jr., 8, but a scion of Manhattan's socialite Livingstons, de Peysters, Wainwrights, great-grandson of Jay Gould, lineal descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. Month ago his mother, divorced from his father, fetched Carroll to Bermuda to live with her and her new husband, Sir Hector Macneal. Last week Carroll walked...
...sfunny," said the youngster, pointing to the tablet, "I don't see his name nowhere...
Harvard is taking a chance on its Sophomore backfield, composed of Tommy Bilodeau, George Ford, George Blackwood and Leo Ecker, to handle the assignments in the game today. This youngster secondary has proved itself adequate on the defense, when it fought like a wildeat to hold back the Orange last week. Not until exhaustion wreaked havoe on this youthful quartet, did the Tiger find the going to his satisfaction
...then throws them into the ashcan. More often it deals with infinite justice and consideration. . . . The job of reporter has heartwarming compensations. Sometimes it pays a living wage. Sometimes it is 'a stepping stone toward better things.' Again it is a satisfying career in itself." Many a youngster wondering whether or not to "take up journalism" will read Stanley Walker's book and decide against it. For the ambitious cub who gets on a paper and stays there. Author Walker pictures a city-room postgraduate course: "It is like attending some fabulous university where the humanities...
...their eyes at his Preface: "A writer can have ultimately, one of two styles: he can write in a manner that implies that death is inevitable, or he can write in a manner that implies that death is not inevitable"; opened their eyes wider & wider at this doom-implying youngster as they read further. To readers accustomed to a well-defined short-story tradition, Author Saroyan's subjective soliloquies may seem impertinently irrelevant to the price of eggs. His unconcern with plot is enough to drive contrivers of well-made stories mad with resentment. All Author Saroyan tries...