Word: youngsters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), husky youngster, not quite 23 years old, paced the floor of his study in the Bucharest palace. Occasionally he stopped to finger the button which led to a concealed Dictaphone. His loose tweed jacket and baggy grey flannel trousers, his light colored eyes and curly brown hair, made him seem younger than he actually was. But he had made his first -and perhaps his last-big decision as King of Rumania. Now he was about to take the big gamble...
Benefactor No. 2 was Dick Skeen, one of the shrewdest teaching pros in the business. For $25 down and $5 a month, he began teaching young Jake how to swing a tennis racket. Each day, the youngster spent three hours on trolley cars, traveling the 18 miles between his home and Skeen's Beverly Hills court. Gradually his strokes took on a Skeen sheen. At 15, Jake easily beat Alice Marble, who was then women's singles champion...
Arthur discovered a talent for preaching. One day, a lay preacher in the town fell ill and asked Arthur to take his place. From then on, though he was only 16, his fluent voice began to echo through the Welsh valleys. Old Jim skimped to send the youngster to a Baptist training college...
Harvard's oldest living graduate, Theodore Parker Adams '67, celebrated his 102nd birthday yesterday in Plymouth with a quiet family dinner at his home. With him was his wife, a mere youngster of 75 years...
...Boston Traveler's Photographer Frank Gushing was out on assignment when he heard a police broadcast of what sounded like a hotter story 2½ miles away. A tough youngster with a gun, chased by the cops, had seized a boy as a shield and was holding off a dozen policemen. The youngster was taking pot shots at the cops, and threatening to shoot his hostage if they came closer...