Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is something of a mystery surrounding the name of Cerio too, but that is quickly dispelled by Francis Brett Young in his foreword. Mr. Young makes it quite evident that no one but Edwin Cerio could have written this book of witty, provocative and occasionally Rubelaisian episodes in the life of Capri. And Col. Fitzhugh L. Minnegerode assures us that this Cerio is known as "Tutelary genius of Capri," and Capri, in turn, is known as "Cerio's Property." Capri is also known to some as "the Mecca of Malcontents" but at all events, here are four...
...Harvard, it has won its reputation and character because for 300 years it has quietly gone about its work of producing educated young men, and it is not what it is because it has put up a front for more than 300 years." Boston Post...
Superintendent of Schools Jeremiah E. Burke advises young men to "be yourselves," in contradiction to the "be snobs" of Professor Rogers...
...this not by way of finding fault, but to notify young men everywhere that the whole aviation job is yet to be done...
...Prince de Ligne, transferred their attention elsewhere. Infant Shame. The minimum age at which a person can be embarrassed, shamed and disgraced has never been clearly defined. But up to last week one Theodore W. Purtee, of Cincinnati, considered that a 12-month-old baby was not too young to be embarrassed, shamed, disgraced. A concern used Mr. Purtee's infant son's picture for advertising purposes in a manner which he thought most humiliating. Father Purtee sued for $5,000 damages, alleging that Infant Purtee had, because of it, been "ridiculed by friends and acquaintances." Furthermore...