Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Vice President Young, who resigned from Breeze in July, went to Grand Rapids to start anew as a munitions salesman, hoped to make Hayes Body a regular contractor to the U. S. Government...
Four years ago a young English writer, Wystan Hugh Auden, incorporated these lines in the chorus of a play. Auden's poems were at that time widely talked about and widely misunderstood-with some reason. They seemed brilliant, veiled, obscurely revolutionary. By October 1939, however, few Englishmen could still look blank over such lines as these. Their meaning was all too painfully clear...
...Emergency Reserve. Born in St. Petersburg, he thought it "reasonable" of Russia to wish her own former Baltic provinces to remain Baltic, not German. As for himself, "my home is in darkness, my income in jeopardy, my hopes for a career non-existent." Evelyn Waugh, creator of the bright young thing, observed with suspicious blandness that "the war is an extension of our normal habits of life; fighting has been a universal human activity and will remain...
...gingerly regarded from the start by almost every mature writer of Britain, many writers were going while yet immature and unknown. Nobody could foresee who might survive it, nor what writing might come of it. Yet there were many to remember Wilfred Owen, the round-faced, silent young officer who was killed a week before the Armistice in 1918, and the few terrible poems published after his death...
...murder story, although it almost turns into one, As for the Woman is the sinister tale of a vacation love-affair between an Oxford undergraduate and a doctor's wife. "There are few human relationships more complicated than a love affair between a young man and an older woman," says Author Iles, "and there are few more summarily dismissed by the world at large...