Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...titled "Flaming Youth." The difference between these and the Hemingway opus was one of starkness and futility; they were romantic--Hemingway was bitter. They wept copiously at their own naughtiness; Hemingway, dry-eyed and sardonic, merely described the catastrophe and agreed with Gertrude Stein that this was indeed "a lost generation...
...working much harder to maintain its reputation than that Younger Generation which immediately followed the war. The task then was simpler: it was a matter of romance and was spontaneous. Now there are standards of depravity which must be lived down if one is to claim membership among the lost generation. Hemingway, with satire as much in mind as anything, painted the scene not as it was but as the youthful sinners would like to believe it was. And now thousands of his admirers are striving manfully to be worthy to the fame with which he has bequeathed them...
Last week the General Education Board founded by John Davison Rockefeller lost its Director of Studies and Medical Education. This official resigned because he wanted to speak freely about educational matters, to criticize constructively without straining the bonds of obligation. He has since accepted Oxford's invitation to be Caylorian lecturer. His name, world-famed, is Abraham Flexner. Born in Louisville, Ky., in 1866, he went into teaching when he received his A. B. from Johns Hopkins University, at the age of 20. Teacher Flexner's life since then has been a constant struggle to raise educational standards...
...three-run lead which the Purple accumulated in the first frame was never lost. With one out, Shanahan singled to right, Savage followed suit, and Shevlin swept the sacks as clean as the proverbial Dutch kitchen with a triple to left centre. When he tried to steal home Cutts hurled the ball to the grandstand...
...final Purple tally came with two down in the fifth. Savage walked and stole second and third. Shevlin also walked, and on an attempted double steal W. W. Lord '28 pegged to third, where the ball was lost by Nugent and Savage scored...