Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe heart & soul in the wisdom and feasibility of its manifold purposes. For chairman President Roosevelt promptly appointed Arthur Ernest Morgan, 55, president of Ohio's Antioch ("Work& Study") College. An engineer of much experience, Chairman Morgan has been fascinated by water and its uses since as a youngster he roved the Minnesota prairie. He wrote the Minnesota and Arkansas drainage codes, helped with those of Mississippi, Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico. He tamed the wild Miami River after it had flooded Dayton in 1913. Since 1920 he has built Antioch College up from an obscure experiment...
...Pangborn's] experience and skill he found himself, upon his return to America, merely the co-pilot of an inexperienced youngster named Herndon. . . . It was clearly understood [at the start] that Pangborn was to be the pilot and that Herndon was to be a sort of glorified passenger and relief pilot if the occasion warranted. ... As a professional flyer I have no more sympathy with a Herndon who will deliberately convert a scientific undertaking into a personal publicity stunt, than I have with a Hutchinson [George R. Hutchinson, father of the 'Flying Family' which cracked...
From the truck a greasy hubcap was unscrewed, clapped down on his head. "That's his crown!" crowed some youngster. Oily slime ran down the judge's face. His tormentors threw dirt at him which stuck to the grease...
...Parachute Jumper" concerns a smuggling ring. Although the plot is inane, and although the dialogue is filled with Minsky wisecracks, it may amuse the non-critical. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is the noble youngster who will fly licuor across the Canadian border, but when he finds that he has been unknowingly carrying dope in the plane, he thinks of the children who will be corrupted, of mothers, and especially of a ten year jail sentence. Bette Davis as the heroine acts as well as ever, and as seductively. She will fade even more rapidly than Marlene Dietrich if the directors persist...
Young Lant, Jacklin's youngest son, shot up like an indigenous growth. When the rest of the children married and moved away, with old Lant dead, the youngster stepped easily into his daddy's shoes. For a while he made a good living for his mother and himself by hunting and fishing. Then hard times came. Lant salvaged and rafted cypress logs down to the sawmill; when there were no more to salvage he made the supreme sacrifice of trying to get a job in a mill. But he was just as pleased when there were no jobs...