Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then the youthful Firpo charged the champion Dempsey and knocked him down and over the ropes and out of the ring, and for a short time it looked as if the younger man had won the fight. But Dempsey, pausing for an instant only, rushed back into the ring, waded into his youthful antagonist and beat him to a standstill, a triumph of brain and courage over youth and ignorance...
...this contest in Texas youthful Dan Moody, strong in the back and weak in the head, has charged the people's champion, your Governor, and for a moment has appeared victorious. But the champion has only paused to catch her breath and she is back in the ring giving battle, and with the rising tide of outraged public opinion is winning a contest which will typify once more the triumph of brains and courage over youth and ignorance...
Upon his death, the Princess ("bowed with grief in her first youth" according to Victorian journalists) summoned all her self possession and was married, 18 months later, to her late fiance's brother, who became George V. Did Her Majesty recall last week the notoriously blameless life of the late Duke of Clarence whose official biographer, J. Edmund Vincent, could find nothing worse to say of him than that at Cambridge he "went at shocking hours...
...would sigh for his oppressed people, adding that Germany nevertheless was trying to forget War hurts, hates, scars. The press quoted him as saying that never again would the Krupp works be used for munitions. Wilmington soon began to comment on this vigorous representative of Germany's youth...
Some months ago, James Calisch's landlady heard her lodger in an altercation with young Silberstein. "You're a nut!" ejaculated the older man. "What reasons have you for making such a statement?" demanded the youth, with the pedantic inflection of an adolescent philosopher. "Well," began Mr. Calisch, patient once more, "in the first place-" They had been arguing about a newly-published book on Sigmund Freud. Mr. Calisch had genially called psychoanalysis "rot." Neurotic young Emanuel was furious; he took Freud as glorious gospel. After the quarrel, Mr. Calisch, annoyed by his voluble visitor, told the landlady...