Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Walter J. Travis a beard?" Golf enthusiasts to whom this question was put suddenly last week stuttered. If they had just laid down a copy of Golf Illustrated they cried: "Y-y-yess! And his picture looks like G. B. Shaw." When Mr. Travis was younger he was U. S. National Amateur champion three times (1900, 1901, 1903), wore no beard. In 1904 he won the British Amateur...
...favor. The play depicting undergraduate life at Cambridge has much to commend it for its fresh and accurate character drawing and the breezy naturalness of the dialogue. Like all pieces of its kind, the moving motive is the struggle for athletic supremacy. . . . "Brown of Harvard" will greatly please the younger set, nor will it to other than give pleasure to those of a more advanced...
...Looking over the field of the younger men now working creatively in theatre," continued Mrs. Isaacs, "it is already easy to see how large an effect college dramatics are going to have on the profession during the next generation...
...philosopher of modern times was more keenly aware than he of the "internal nature" which philosophy must recognize and study. The recommendation is significant of the demand which our serious youth are making to come closer to the fountain head of life. It reflects the conclusion of the younger generation, that physical science cannot be everything. --Boston Transcript, April...
This feature strongly suggests the origin and development of the Garrick Galties, which were started by some of the younger members of the Garrick Theatre Company for the purpose of parodying the plays which were then running in New York. The idea seemed to take with the theatre-going public, and the Gaities prospected and grow. Although the scope of the parody has broadened out to include American life in general, its favorite prey has remained the theatre. Skits on famous actors and actresses, like the disturbing domestic scene between Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine during the course...