Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Example: After suspicion fell on a youth named Grober in Rostov, a woman who had sponsored him for membership in the Party was expelled, as were the chairman of the union to which Grober belonged and three men who had sat with him on a committee and were accused of "not exposing Grober." Grober's younger brother and sister were not only expelled from the Young Communist League but also from school. Last week the Moscow Central Party Committee scorchingly rebuked the Rostov Party Committee and ordered general reinstatement of all those "punished." Moscow had discovered that the charge...
...general theory heretofore concerning the origin of the yell--one which Mr. Rinehart said had no truth in it--was that a lonely youth had conceived the idea of calling his own name up to a vacant room so that the other students would think he was not without friends...
Professor Vere Gordon Child kindly reminded the photographer that he had not set his camera right, and showed him the proper setting. Professor Peter Dobye said American youth needed a Hitler to give them action, as had been done in Germany. Professor Edgar D. Adrian was one of the few who refused to have his picture taken, terming it an "ignorant, embarrassing situation...
...jail. Red Currie got number 45F8575, a pair of stylish Sizzle Pants for $3.65. Sylvester Merrick, colored, got a new clothesline. Ira Pirtle ordered some rubber collars ("easily cleaned with a damp cloth,") number 33F8244, at three for 60?. The Widow Holcomb sent for a bottle of Youth Tone black hair dye, 8F3882, for $2.29. -Behind these orders lay the aspirations, tastes, customs, needs of a drowsy, mismanaged, tough Oklahoma country town that boasted a third-class post office, a weekly paper, a municipal debt...
...peaceful style of writing. This time he tells the story of Corney Crone, born in Cork in 1873, the son of a narrow, unsuccessful, whining father and a slovenly mother who soon drove four of their five children from home. The fifth was feeble-witted. Corney's youth was dominated by his picturesque, poetic grandfather, an old Fenian who lived in a garret and spouted Shakespeare to his grandchildren. Corney was in on the tragedy of Parnell's disgrace, touched politics when he was arrested for the death of a "peeler" that one of his friends killed...