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The rest of the time I devoted to painting or to those other activities a young and healthy man just out of college finds interesting.
The patrolman said to no one in particular as he pushed between the fat man in the baseball cap and a young boy in levis.
He was a huge young man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely strong, with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner that was submerged under his present agitation.
With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.
`` Another young man, my dear??
Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.
A smart, shrewd and ambitious young man, well connected, and with a knack for getting in the good graces of important people, he was bound to go far.
so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
and, as in the March home, any young man who called on the Szolds found himself confronted with a phalanx of femininity which made it rather difficult to direct his particular attention to any one of them.
and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.
Miriam Noel disregarded the free advice of her departing counselor, and appointed a heavy-faced young man named Harold Jackson to take his place.
`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.
He was then a slightly built young man of pleasing appearance, medium stature, and handsome face.
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.
`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.
`` Husky young man '', he said with mock distaste.
Therefore, he decided he was unfair to the young man and should make an effort to understand and sympathize with his point of view.
This young man had so little time to learn he had to be curious ; ;
Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.
That other Jew, a young man too, had left that greatcoat behind, in a rich house, and marched away.
What had that man, that other young Jew, felt as he stood in the twilight and heard other men, far away, singing together??

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When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.
And like Jo March, who saw her sisters Meg and Amy involved in `` lovering '' before herself, Henrietta saw her sisters Rachel and Sadie drawn outside their family circle by the attraction of suitors, Rachel by Joe Jastrow, and Sadie by Max Lobl, a young businessman who would write her romantic descriptions of his trips by steamboat down the Mississippi.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
When Prudence and Blackberry were too young to be trusted in the dining room, they were tied to the radiator with their leashes, and they would cry.
O my genius, young and ripening, you would swear, -- when I wrote them ; ;
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
They would be lolling under a tree sipping Ouzo, relishing the leisurely life, assuring him that the day was yet young.
While Aristotle censors literature only for the young, Plato would banish all poets from his ideal state.
He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.
To those of my readers who find many of my opinions morally, or politically, or sociologically antiquated ( and I have reason to know that there are some such ), I would like to say what I have already hinted, namely, that some of my opinions may indeed be subject to some discount on the simple ground that I am no longer young and therefore incapable of being youthful of mind.
`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??
Many of our young people think it would.
In addition, would not the young female public of Washington be afforded a greater degree of protection at night when they are on the streets if they were accompanied by a dog on a leash??
I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??
It would be heartbreaking to see idealism, and hence effective leadership, thwarted by the poverty and hardship which young Americans will run into.
He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together: a Mary who would be young and sensitive, yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; ;
Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.
Occasionally gay young blades would write vividly to boon companions at home about their amorous exploits in Richmond, Petersburg, Washington, or Nashville.
If Mr. Skyros had dreamed of all the trouble that young man would eventually cause --
that Mrs. Garth would be impeccably suitable as the wife of a rising young lawyer ; ;
Members of the young set who would like to come to the party only during the dancing time are welcomed.
`` It would make me feel a lot better, but the Woman's Exchange isn't taking baked goods any more and I can't leave the baby with Grandma because she isn't strong enough and the baby's too young to be put in a nursery ''.
if Tommy sat long enough, she would be sure to see all the young officers she had met in San Diego and Long Beach.
But she was learning that so long as she was in this country, and wore civilian dress in the Club, there would always be transient young men who would approach her with broken English.

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