Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deputies filed past the rostrum depositing their ballots they chanted a Fascist song: "Youth!! Youth!! Springtime of Beauty. . . ." The bill passed 293 to 10. As the vote was announced...
...Established authors, especially such contributors to the Saturday Evening Post as Irvin S. Cobb, return to pronounce like benedictions upon Premier Mussolini and all his works. Last week, in Paris, Louis Bromifield, 30, author of three financially and artistically successful novels* recounted to newsgatherers with the alarming candor of youth impressions gleaned on a recent visit to Italy...
...second greatest role. He was too gentle, reasonable, humble to quarrel or criticize. Attacks upon himself left him unmoved. Sociably inclined, he had to contend with his fondness for people to get his work done. His love and respect for his children was immense. A keen sportsman in youth, he could hardly bear to dissect pigeons later. The favorite game of his gentle, invalid age is referred to in a letter: "Now the tally with my wife in backgammon stands thus: she, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games while I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2.795 games!" A pious...
...asserted that the modern college man is more studies than those of former years because his general average, is 1.9 as compared to their 1.4, defenders of the younger generation took opportunity to give several rousing cheers. The New York World, however, bitterly points out that the present day youth is not expected to know as much as his father, that "there was a time when a college boy had to wrestle with Greek and Latin he had to report daily on the doings of pious Acneas, with special attention to the accusative as subject of the infinitive in indirect...
...novel of youth's illusions and disillusions of its gaieties, its follies, its crudities, its beauties. It is a creditible and responsible work."--N. Y. Times Book Review. Attractive binding and jacket, suitable for a gift...