Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have always since early youth been an inveterate newspaper and magazine reader, but on attaining the age of understanding definite needs and capacities, dropped all such reading matter, and now depend on TIME to keep me a citizen of the world. I also read the Literary Digest (skipping current events and foreign news), for a more detailed account of the drama and certain personal notes which are very often the choice selection of the American, which magazine (the American) I do not wish to disparage, nevertheless, it is an awful dose to digest as a whole, for grownups...
...putters and chops in a fur-eared cap; and, like Wilhelm II, is writing his autobiography. Recently, as one autobiographer to another, Poultney Bigelow reviewed the onetime Kaiser's latest work,* wrote of him as follows: "It was William II's good fortune to know in his youth only pure women and clean, brave, loyal, highly educated men. . . . The mob howls at the Kaiser as our people did at the President of the late Confederate States [Jefferson Davis]. . . Each was charged with cowardice for seeking to make his escape. The same people would probably have said the same...
Married. Ellis Williams, 72, boyhood chum of onetime British Premier David Lloyd George; to Mrs. Martha Smith, 79, sister of Mr. Williams' third wife; in Denver. Born in Wales, Mr. Williams loudly boasts that as a youth he once defeated Mr. Lloyd George at marbles...
...commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality over their oldtime virtues. But then he turns around to ballyhoo Progress harder than anyone and to give his contemporaries credit for planting in Modern Youth a virtue greater than ever. This is curious because it reveals in himself a refinement of the very vice he has set out to reform-boasting. Nor does he demonstrate that the "new" virtue is wisdom and not a surface application of mass education, theory, platitudes...
...Anderson is trying to make a work of art, still he is one of the most self-obtrusive of artists and in propounding his way of life he trespasses on sociology; and while Tom is trying to point a social moral (in effect: "Behold, we do, and should, serve youth far more nobly than youth was served yesterday!"), still he implicitly adorns a tale (in effect: "What a wonder that I turned out as fine a man as I am!"). They are on common ground-but going in opposite directions...