Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whetted by his first stroke of high finance, Fisk brashed into Wall Street, but with indifferent success until Uncle Dan'l Drew, dour and dignified and sanctimonious, took the mustachioed youngster under his batlike wing. Drew was the man who drove thirsty live stock into Manhattan, and having watered it just before weighing it, greatly increased the pounds for sale, thus originating the financial term of "watering stock...
...consistent favorite on the track was Eddie Buzzell in the part of a youngster who came from the country to Manhattan where, by the simple trick of owning a doll which suggested a good number in a musical show, he made a fortune and won the heroine, impersonated by the spry and pretty Barbara Newberry. Aside from the mechanical innovations, the most noteworthy ingredient of Good Boy was Charles Butterworth, cast in the role of a cynical farm-lout. This curious and doleful personage often put his hands above his head and remarked, "Oh, the pity...
...horses, little for hunting. He rides his ponies hard and not gracefully. But he was bred out of a family of polo-lovers. His mother, herself a player, has been friend and mentor of the Meadow Larks, a team which included young Tommy and Stevenson and many another youngster who now has an international rating. It was she who in 1921 polished the play of the 16-year-old Guest, then a raw but distinguished immigrant to the U. S. from England. Polo is in the Hitchcock blood. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. ranks with Devereaux Milburn and possibly Lewis Lacey...
...Washington with many stars that might develop; Cleveland slumping after a burst in the early season; Boston trying hard, well-bossed by Carrigan, but raw; Chicago weak all round; Detroit expensive, theoretically strong, but actually little better than Chicago. They considered personalities: Ed Morris, Boston pitcher, called the best youngster in either league; Chalmers Cissel, swaggering Chicago shortstop who, drying himself in a locker room, said scornfully in early season: "Major league pitching is more of a cinch than Coast League," who the week before the Fourth batted .240. They considered National League personalities: those famed roommates and Cincinnati outfielders...
...harsh sentence of the court might be construed as giving grounds for suspicion that the judges of the case sought to punish him not for the moral qualities of this, one of the first fruit from his pen, but for his revolutionary proclivities in general. This youngster in the field of literature was indeed beginning to regard himself as a martyr, so unjust did he feel the decision to be, and so the reversal of the original verdict is excellent policy on the part of the courts, which have long been accused of a violent ultra-conservatism; they are avoiding...