Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after night fell to comparing the performances of the three actresses who appeared in turn as the nun. They thought that Miss Patterson and Lady Diana brought the greatest spirituality to the part, that Miss Tree had not quite their ethereal innocence together with the sense of warm, alert youth that is required. Miss Patterson, like her debutante predecessor, Miss Rosamond Pinchot of Manhattan, enjoyed a special triumph; and the story went the rounds again of how she had made her social debut last year on condition that her parents let her become an actress another year...
Benito Himself. Il Duce's wife and children are not so much as mentioned, but that his youth was at one time scarcely celibate is delicately implied by referring to "the blond mane of a young Russian girl" who called him "Benitouchka," and by a remark about the time when "he lived in a brolanda kept by a baccana. These are not really Italian words but coinages of our Italian emigrants, meaning a lodging house of the humblest kind kept by an attractive young woman...
...been of very great value to American music because it has enlisted a real interest in the best music among American youth, for its influence has extended to preparatory school. It new retires from this contest for good and sufficient reasons, and the action it took early in October in relation to the coming contest was approved by the Executive Committee of the Club and by the Graduate Advisory Committee...
...Then Farnan proceeded to Washington and sought out his Congressman, Representative Albert H. Vestal. The latter introduced him to the House, which applauded. Platis were arranged for Farnan to appear before the House Mili tary Committee, now investigating the national aircraft situation and give his testimony on what youth can, does and should do in the air. A licensed pilot since he was 13, the young man can navigate the subtle technicalities of aeronautical theory quite as readily as he copes in practice with air-pockets, cross winds, cloud banks and wind squalls...
Last week, however, a youth whose face shone clean and pleasant beneath his black skullcap, said something just as Joe was opening the cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...