Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman was perched atop a stepladder which her equally gouty old husband kept from toppling over. "Now she steps out of the car, like a queen," the woman reported. "And the Duke, quel beau gosse!" (what a handsome youngster...
Since 1928, when television first opened its infant eyes, the youngster has been making goo-goos at Hollywood. Hollywood, full of its grown-up affairs, paid no attention. Now television is too big to be ignored. Last week three major studios were openly or clandestinely carrying on with the young fellow...
...train chuffed into the station at Davos, Switzerland, a battered jeep bearing the markings of the U.S. Fifth Army stood waiting. A news photographer, assigned to cover a royal reunion, wasted no glances on the strapping youngster in U.S. Army flying jacket who sat at the wheel. But when the big train braked to a stop and the pretty girl in the fur coat stepped off, she had eyes only for the jeep driver. "Hello, Michael darling," she trilled in English, running to him and planting an enthusiastic kiss on his cheek. "Hello, Anne," he stammered in blushing answer...
...youngster's moth first consulted the Encyclopedia Britannica, and then turned to the New England Museum of Natural History, who suggested the University Museum...
...news of 1947 was television. Television grew-and behaved-as outlandishly as an adolescent boy. More than 149,000 sets were sold; nine new telecasting stations were operating. But programs (except for sportscasts, a television natural) were mostly pretty, clumsy; and the first advertising binge had left the youngster with a bad commercial breath...