Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, who has never touched tobacco but who as a youngster delighted the late Charles Anderson Dana by recognizing Cháteau Yquem by taste, made his first visit to one of Manhattan's 50,000 speakeasies, found in it material for a half-column description. Excerpts: ''It is one o'clock in the day and somewhat surprised you see every seat occupied, practically all of them by young girls, chatting with the bartenders, taking cocktails or 'absinthe drip,' if you know what that is.* Some experienced, with mucous membranes well seasoned...
...interest I note in your issue of Nov. 23 a statement made by James" J. Harrington to the effect that Northwestern University had made a hobo of his son. And yet the same story sets forth the information that not the University, but Mr. Harrington himself, had given this youngster a $3,000 automobile! I graduated from Northwestern, and in four years there (the expensive years of 1919-23), my total expenses were less than the cost of above-mentioned automobile by several hundred dollars...
...working until supper time. Since his birth into a poor family on a lonely farm in the Red River County of North Texas, "Jack" Garner has come far but changed little. He is, as he likes to repeat, a man of the common people. As a youngster, he was puny. He got little or no formal education. A touch of tuberculosis sent him down to the hilly ranges of South Texas where it is higher, drier. There he punched cows, hunted, fished, slept under the stars. Outdoor life brought him a robust, ruddy-cheeked vitality he has never lost. Nights...
...that the child is a perfectly normal baby, running about and as bright as a button, a cunning little rascal who hears perfectly and says just about as many words as any baby of seventeen months may be expected to say. . . . The parents naturally have tried to keep the youngster out of the newspapers. . . . I have heard stories of nurses of the Lindbergh baby fleeing from cameras when the infant was out for an airing. . . . Publicity, as anyone who has seen its ravages in Washington knows, ruins a good many grown men. How much worse must it be for children...
...Youngster Sir Stafford Cripps, who was Solicitor General in the last Labor Government, was called last week "the only Laborite with first-class brains elected...