Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...photograph of a wall-eyed youngster with protruding ears, a puckered mouth, and neither shirt nor collar on his thick wrinkled neck appeared on the front page of a famed daily last week under the caption "YOUTH SUPREME." The youth in question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in a bloody bout in Brooklyn his supremacy against black Harry Wills, once known as "The Brown Panther," and long the Nemesis of Jack Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through the fight the referee skipped between...
Under her grandmother's guidance, Dids grows into the best all-around youngster at the high school. Ralph bucks up, with peace at home and a renewed interest in athletics. In a fierce whisper one night, Mrs. Bascomb tells him to cut and run; she will cover his tracks and he shall have his life...
Thin, tightlipped, square-shouldered, undistinguished outwardly save as young editors sometimes look alert and vigorous, Gerald P. Nye has done very well for himself without any of the paternal glamor that has assisted Robert Lafollette, aged 31, Nye's only rival for "youngster of the Senate." All things being equal, doubtless Senators Nye and Lafollette will reminisce together some decades from now in the august Chamber, over episodes of the mid-Nineteen-Twenties, which no one else then present will come any where near remembering...
...despaired silently when brilliant Roger Wethered of England had an off morning and lost to the equally brilliant but less reliable Robert Scott Jr. of Glasgow. Wethered was one of the Isles' best hopes against the Americans. And Sir Ernest Holderness was another. Sir Ernest lost to another untried youngster, Robert Peattie, whose father is postmaster of Perth. That really left Champion Robert Harris as the only man of calibre sufficient for a brave final, for even the Irish champion, Dr. John McCormack, had been put out by Jess Sweetser...
These women are of high calibre, capably accommodate the stranded youngster and firmly reject the leering bummer who wants a ticket "from Manhattan to San Francisco." Him they send to lodging houses or other social service societies. The child, girl or woman, if relatives cannot be reached immediately, is taken to the Guest House of the Manhattan Society on E. 43rd St. If traveling funds are needed, the Manhattan agent wires to relatives or to the Travelers Aid worker in the far city...