Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young lawyer in Budapest, with a wife and infant child, has just recovered from an illness and is looking for a job when the World War breaks out. He unheroically volunteers (he has flat feet). To his great surprise he is accepted, goes to training camp, then to the front, is captured by the Russians, and, in company with thousands of German and Austrian prisoners, is sent from one prison camp to another, finally landing in Siberia. There, for almost six years, he stays...
...Young, intelligent, fatally beautiful, Diana von Wassilko is the kind of girl who gives and goes. In her coolly amorous passage through the social high spots of Europe, she has many calls on her generosity. When the story opens, she has just left one lover, an unripe Viennese poet, after an idyllic two weeks on a Mediterranean island. When her story ends, she has apparently lost her freedom but attained respectability by a morganatic marriage to a Middle-European prince. But between these two points the huntress of men has had good hunting: Diplomat Count Münsterberg, Millionaire Scherer...
...April 2, 1725, in Venice, was born Giacomo Giralamo Casanova, possibly a bastard, probably a most consummate liar, certainly a very exceptional rogue. His father, Gaetan, was ''amorous, but without means;" his mother, Zanetta, an actress, no better than she should have been. Young Casanova's propensities, thus honestly acquired, were opportunist, not to say immoral, and he followed his bent. When he was 72, he wrote his famed Memoirs, The Story of My Life Until the Year...
...young Giacomo was clever, and when the opportunity of a priestly career fell in his way he seized it, extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi...
...homes of friends, according to the will of the hostess," at resorts to which young Baltimore men friends escort them, privily, by stealth, Goucher College girls have usually smoked if they wanted to. Their worst fear of detection has been that some righteous schoolmate might see and report then. Seldom has this happened for Goucher is a big college [enrolment: 985] in the middle of a busy city. Keeping in stride with other pragmatic women's colleges, last week Acting President* Hans Froelicher announced that as long as smoking did not "interfere with routine class work," or create fire...