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Word: youngsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left to head the Labor Party in Parliament (unless a "safe seat" is found for Mr. Henderson at a by-election) were a shrewd oldster and a smart youngster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monstrous Majority | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Leon Janney, as Penrod, is a talented and charming boy, with an infectious laugh and a most engaging swagger. But his face is far too pretty for Penrod, who would have been more accurately represented by Junior Cohgian, the youngster who plays Sam. If ever Hollywood does a story of prep-school life, which is unlikely, Leon Janney would make a perfect lower-form boy attending Sunday evening Chapel in an Eton collar...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/7/1931 | See Source »

...short, haven't you some sort of job that will enable a youngster to keep on in school instead of entering the already overcrowded ranks of wage-earners? A telephone call to any of the colleges in and around Boston will put you in touch with somebody who can give you what you need. --Boston Herald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1636--1931 | 9/23/1931 | See Source »

...another Ford, which finished second. Smart nearly caught up with Russell when the leader became lost over the mountains of Kentucky and failed to find Middlesboro. Later Russell had to fly back from Knoxville, Tenn., and touch at Middlesboro to escape heavy penalties. Sensation of the meet was the youngster Eddie Schneider, 19, who fell into last place by a forced landing of his Cessna and a three-day delay in Kentucky, then fought his way back to finish third, ahead of all other light planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Ford's Reliability | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...well rounded paper . . . with all the news. . . . And listen, you pack of delightful bastards ... tie your hats on because we're all going for a fast ride." Editor Gauvreau is 39, lean, gimlet-eyed, hardboiled, literate. He walks with a limp, the result of "shellshock" suffered as a youngster when practical jokers set off a Fourth of July cannon under his bed room window. He was schooled on the ultra-conservative Hartford Courant, of which he was managing editor when he went to work for Macfadden. The Mirror had less than 400,000 circulation when he joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor Bares All | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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