Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lascivious literature and suggestive art are special menaces to public morals because of their effect on innocent and susceptible youth. We are warned, for example, that "a whole High School class of unwedded mothers may be the result of a lascivious book." Mr. Chase further greatly deplores the inadequacy of the law regarding matters of censorship. One gets the impression that these reformers are a very serious people quite lacking in a sense of humor...
...ditty that Bismark's sister used to sing in which Satan swears (TIME, Feb. 22, p. 11) and now (TIME, March 29, p. 38) you allow an "adder" to leave a shot of poison in the form of a witty, unforgettable coined word where youth will ran into it head...
...only did she take no false vanity in the accident of her unblemished features, but besides preferring to the worldly career they might have brought her the career of service which she brought herself, she disliked talking about silver dollars and dismissed her posing as "an incident of my youth...
Love in a Mist. High comedy is nebulous stuff and demands much of the playwrights and performers. It received everything from the latter in this production and virtually nothing from the former. It reveals a girl who simply could not tell the truth and who got herself, a southern youth, and an Italian nobleman into no end of difficulty through this inability. Madge Kennedy, Sidney Blackmer (giving his best performance in several seasons) and Tom Powers are occupied as these three. Even so, the manuscript is wandering and almost mirthless...
...sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all, for he had heard the laconic comment of Major Cooper Key that "America has put the brains of a veteran into a youth of 17." Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over the sophomores in the annual class rush, waited on table and shined shoes...