Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second act, Patricia discovers that Grace Collinge loves Davis Mills. Repenting her efforts to ensnare the youth, she announces to her friends the depths to which she has stooped and the financial crash which is impending...
Professor Bliss Perry spoke of the great work Colonel Higginson had done in the field of letters. His prose possessed an easy and flawless texture, mature from his very youth. Perhaps that work which best typifies the man is his "Cheerful Yesterdays," into which he has been able to throw the whole of his delicate, cheerful, and chivalrous character...
After his graduation in 1899. Mr. Macy became an assistant in the English Department. A year later he was called to join the editorial staff of the "Youth's Companion," a position which he held for eight years. Since 1909 Mr. Macy has been engaged in literary and educational work...
...progress firmly based on a pervasive sense of reality; above all, jubilantly young. At times the Monthly has seemed to stumble in premature senility; in this number it is light afoot, and fine with the virtues and the faults that we all like to claim as belonging essentially to youth...
With Mrs. Smith go a little company of lightly sketched, diversified, and amusing personages: her husband who provides the money for this social pilgrimage and takes the right of free comment upon it for his compensation; her secretaries, a well contrasted Boston youth of the aether and a western girl of less rarified atmosphere; the Russian prince, exotic and amorous, that she gathers into her train; women of Breezeboro, women of Newport, women of Boston--aesthetic, intellectual, philanthropic, or "merely" social; and finally, entertaining "specimens" of the "younger set" of society in Boston and of the University in Cambridge...