Word: youngers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Judge Gary, of the United States Steel Corporation, Schwab of Bethlehem, Rockefeller, Ford, and others of their ilk, if they had known a little football in their younger years, would have made excellent head coaches." This statement is set forth in an article by P. E. Dutcher '08, manager of the University eleven in '1907, in the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin...
Incredible as it may seem, flaming youth still flames in the movies. It has flared up most recently in "We Moderns" at the Metropolitan, a picture based, it is said, on Israel Zangwill's play about the younger generation in England. In this film Colleen Moore, the original flaming youth girl, sets out to make the flapper look old-fashioned and outdo all her previous feats in one glorious burst of flamboyant adolescence...
...completely given over to him, much as Lightnin' was given over to Bill Jones. The plays are not dissimilar. The Deacon is probably not so important as its prototype, but a very fair echo no less. Young Blood. You would think, would you not? that plays about the younger generation were about over with. But they are not. Here are such a shrewd and forward-looking a dramatist as James Forbes and such excellent performers as Helen Hayes, Norman Trevor, Eric Dressier and Florence Eldridge going over the whole thing again...
...Baltimore, an aged pianist whose eyes looked out of caverns that fatigue had carved in his sombre face, struck up "Maryland, My Maryland." The chords strode across a half-empty Armory, coming faintly to the ears of a far younger musician, who sat in a chair thickly padded with blankets and thumped dully at another keyboard. These two-Professor Camillo Baucia, "champion marathon pianist of Europe," and B. G. Burt of Jamestown, N. Y., U. S. champion-had been playing continuously for over 52 hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only...
...plot of the book has as its theme a reputation of the abuse recently heaped on the younger generation and satirizes the usual flaming youth. The older generation is represented by a publicity craving garter manufacturer...