Word: youngster
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...James Reese Europe's Clef Club. He played for debut parties at the Plaza, the Waldorf. He heard what Scott Fitzgerald once described as "a hundred pairs of golden and silver slippers" shuffling "the shining dust." Jimmie began making pianola rolls, often in the same studio with a youngster named George Gershwin...
...anatomist pronounced the skeleton that of a man over 30. But professor Krogman won the case for the father by proving conclusively that the skeleton was indeed that of an 18-year-old Seminole-Negro whose measurements fitted the missing youngster...
...character in the story is ten-year-old Emily Thornton (well played by eleven-year-old Abby Bonime), a secretive, imaginative youngster capable-with no villainous intentions-of both coldblooded treachery and hysterical murder...
...youngster . . . doesn't know what he is saying . . . [but] knows it creates a stir. . . . If the adult is shocked and sharply forbids . . . the child will use the phrase over and over . . . the teacher [should] let the obnoxious expression go the first few times. . . . Often . . . it will wear itself out. . . . If you correct a child and he answers, 'My father says that' . . . you must . . . [avoid] discrediting his home. . . . It must be pointed out. . . that, although those words may be used at home, [they] cannot be . . . at school...
...Fish. At 7:15 the lookout reported planes. Berlin started back toward the cockpit; it was already too late. The only thing he could do was lie down, so he stretched out on deck and calmly gave an order: "All right, general quarters." The port gunner, a blond youngster named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball on the wings...