Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escape the fact that we belong to the culture pattern of Western Europe which is represented by England and France. Hence if these countries should face defeat, we would find it difficult to remain out of the struggle. . . . We may ... be on the verge of tragic days for our young people...
...Lawyer (by Richard Maibaum & Harry Clork; produced by George Abbott) is one of those athletic farces which have the delicacy of a subpoena and the subtlety of an alarm clock. A firm of young lawyers ready for the poorhouse ropes in a millionaire playboy overripe for the asylum. As the gilded nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie...
...college's laboratory nursery school, she one day decided to take sound movies (unobserved) of her tots' behavior. She found the movies illuminating. Eventually she made a reel showing the right and the wrong way to approach her central problem-orange juice. First scene, picturing a young mother's desperate attempt, ends with her youngster screaming, the orange juice untouched. Second scene shows a teacher whose timing is expert, ends with smiling Junior drinking it all up. In the third scene the mother, now better informed, also succeeds...
...Birmingham coal dealer, Artist Brockhurst was born in 1890. At twelve he entered the Birmingham School of Art, was soon hailed as "a young Botticelli," won prize after prize there and at the Royal Academy Schools in London. A smooth success from his first one-man show in 1915, Limner Brockhurst charges up to ?2,000 for a full-length portrait, limits his commissions to ?20,000 a year. His person is as meticulous as his painting. He has a horror of Bohemianism, would rather stain his Bond Street suits with paint than cover them up with a smock...
Holy See, the remainder of a $6,000,000 estate to Carroll Club, Inc. (young Catholic business girls). Dr. John Martin Vincent, retired professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, left $1,000,000 to the University's history department...