Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-six years earlier-a broad-shouldered, barrel-chested youngster-he had joined the Red Army. He was 18, spoiling for a fight, devoted to Bolshevism with a youth's unquestioning faith. He fought, starved, earned a decoration...
...Eton, already a hulking, good-natured youngster, he got the inevitable nickname of "Jumbo." Elephants have since become a matter of fascination to him. His children remember that on trips to the zoo he could watch the elephants all day. He admires elephant-foot carpets, likes little ivory jumbos on his desk. Some friends think he has taken on elephant characteristics, among them a stupendous memory. For his headquarters when he commanded Britain's PAI force (Persia & Iraq) he designed an emblem with a rampaging elephant, trunk uplifted...
Correspondents who interviewed Major Howard found no daredevil youngster, but a lanky, quiet-spoken, 30-year-old veteran air fighter with thinning reddish hair, a slow smile. They also found that the "one-man-air-force's" private war with the Luftwaffe had lasted for about 30 minutes, and included at least five combats with individual Nazi planes within the pattern of the general melee...
...James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...
...anatomist pronounced the skeleton that of a man over 30. But professor Krogman won the case for the father by proving conclusively that the skeleton was indeed that of an 18-year-old Seminole-Negro whose measurements fitted the missing youngster...