Word: unspoilt
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...unspoilt youth . . . with his mind just waking up and his feelings all fresh and open to the good," Essayist G. Lowes Dickinson once wrote, "is the most beautiful thing this world produces...
Apparently still unspoilt, Deanna Durbin offstage has the normal 14-year-old girl's fondness for intolerant sentiments, for primly precocious phraseology. She has announced that she will "probably never marry." Asked whether she would like Clark Gable as her leading man. she replied: "Why, I admire Mr. Gable's acting very much, but I believe the choice of a leading man depends on whether or not he is suitable for the role...
...that girdles the Yard, he takes his life in his hands when he strolls by the Charles. Let him walk in the Fenway, in Jamaica., or to the pond near Belmont, he is always aware that the city is about him. Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot or two of snow, the trees grey with frost, no pathway or roadway swept, and one small gas street-lamp the only reminder of town life. It was a momentary...
...Oxford one is constantly reminded of the nearness of the country. From my college window I have a view unspoilt by houses: ahead of me stretches the broad green sweep of the Christ Church Meadows, broken by the tall noble trees bordering the Broad Walk, and far beyond them is the Isis. In the fields I often see horses grazing; it is a country view...