Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is more liberty for youth here than in France," declared Madame when asked to compare the American boy and girl with French youth. "And it develops character quicker. The young girl in France is kept in seclusion until her marriage. If I had a daughter, I would raise her in the American fashion. All but smoking--it is wrong for girls. As for night clubs, I think that the modern boy and girl should be crusted. There must be confidence in one's blood...
...announced to his rather hostile contempories that all that was necessary to outlive one's friends was a draught of essence of reindeer. Spaniards in the sixteenth century tramped their way to fever and death in the swamps to Florida all for a few bubbles in the fountain of youth. Ladies of the present with a more practical turn of mind submit to the beautifying tortures of the face litter. But as Mr.--Wells points out science threatens to make us stay young whether we like it or not. Baccilll and thyroids are the shibboleths to the new alchemy...
Representative James A. Gallivan of Massachusetts is Irish, Democratic and Wet. In his youth he was a hard-hitting baseball player for Harvard. But more important than that, he is the most popular funnyman in the House. Well do Congressmen remember when he strolled up the aisle to deliver his annual "message" (TIME...
...were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying, 'Osborn, do you see that in that face? That's what...
Rising standards for admission to college threaten the country with a loss of valuable manpower, according to President Remsen B. Ogilby of Trinity college. This is due to the fact that colleges are "ruthlessly disregarding the individual problem of the youth who has been dropped from college...