I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think…

I don’t want to be an alarmist, but I think that the Younger Generation is up to something…. I base my apprehension on nothing more definite than the fact that they are always coming in and going out of the house, without any apparent reason.

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“The Children’s Hour” in My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)

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