Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have more children and to give them home Christian training is fundamental to an efficient church. . . . We old fellows can go to hell without affecting posterity, but the habits of our children are of the utmost importance. A parent begins to take his child to the movies when the youngster is 4 years old and then wonders why the child is queer when reaching the age of 16. . . . We must encourage our mem bers to be more virile, spiritually, physically and mentally. This requires taking a firm stand against liquor, gambling, late parties, questionable movies and other things that...
...Bill Benton's class of 1921 at Yale there was a nimble-witted youngster named Chester B. ("Chet") Bowles with whom he had only a nodding acquaintance. But by 1929 Bowles knew Benton as ace assistant to Lord & Thomas Adman Albert Lasker in Chicago. Benton knew Bowles as a crack writer who was turning out some $4,000,000 worth of copy annually for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn in Manhattan. Few months before the stock-market crash, Adman Benton, then 29, and Adman Bowles, then 28, went into the New York Secretary of State's office, came...
Seattle knew and warned Washington, when it elected Marion Anthony Zioncheck, 35, to Congress, that it would have a Representative likely to claim the spotlight. Instead he worked hard, won considerable esteem in Washington as a promising youngster. Last December he began to get into scrapes. When he got started on his honeymoon four weeks ago, Seattle knew its Congressman was on a rare bender (TIME, May 11). But not until last week, when he returned to Washington, did Seattle begin to suspect that its man was turning from a besotted funster into a raving dipsomaniac. Events of 96 lunatic...
...first week he found himself far down on the list of competitors. The second week he steadied, tied for the lead with 21-year-old Albert Simonson, youngest entrant. Last week Youngster Simonson, still tied with Reshevsky on the last day, lost his final match. Playing with customary meticulousness and gulping huge draughts of ice water, Samuel Reshevsky contented himself with a draw against his last opponent, became U. S. chess champion by a ^ point margin...
...acre farm he had bought sight unseen, Julian hoped that their moving days were over. Mr. Howard was a bookish, improvident schoolteacher whose every move was to the Promised Land. Mrs. Howard was a philosopher with a weak heart. Julian, the only child, was a level-headed youngster who saw through his father's grown-up dignity to the helpless human being behind it. Mr. Howard, full of the intellectual's passion for the land, and a small pocketful of savings, was no match for the hard-headed natives. They sold him worthless stock and too-expensive machinery...