Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncle David" seemed again last week the boyish Prince of Wales and not the 42-year-old King-Emperor when he went out to test the British Admiralty's new "Flea Boats." These are high-speed motorboats firing torpedoes. For months British capital ships infesting Italian waters have been bothered by such "Fleas...
Money for the monument was left by the late J. Henry Ferguson, bachelor Baltimore banker and socialite, who described Generals Jackson & Lee as "my boyish heroes," specified in his bequest: "On one of the [statue's] sides, I want it to read: They were great generals and Christian soldiers and waged war like gentlemen.' These are my own words, and I only ask the simple word under them, 'Ferguson.'" Mrs. Fraser's winning model, in accordance with the competition's rules, showed the generals as they parted before Chancellorsville, on May 2, 1863. General...
...Deeds Goes to Town" to take over the fortune of a mangled madcap uncle, and when the town learns of the twenty million dollars, the town comes to Mr. Deeds. Gary Cooper succeeds once again in delineating that gawky, boyish bashfulness that entrances even Marlene Dietrich. However shining a badge of genuineness such behavior may be outside of the movies, simplicity and naviete impart an unquestionable worth to a movie person...
...onetime Kaiser, spying for the Soviets. In 1928 Mencken published a collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German grandparentage. Mencken began to write "seriously" at 12, took T. H. Huxley (see below I for his god at 16. An amiable skeptic, short, fat. boyish to look at, he is fond of practical jokes. Some suspect his philological delvings are merely a form of involved japery. but fellow-philologists take him seriously, call him the authority on U. S. English...
...longest-living (99) painter was about 83, is in Titian's "yellow & blue" period with overtones of the preceding "red & green." No diet-disciplined Hollywood beauty, the great-hipped, heavy-stomached Venus lies on a violet couch while a Cupid crowns her with flowers, and a boyish nobleman serenades her with a lute. The paint job is superb, the composition dramatic. Credited with being the first intimations of 18th Century Impressionism are the blue mountains, the wide vague plain in the background...