Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, Archbishop of Malines, was one of those rare men who in youth so thoroughly foresee their life work that the desiccating years cannot warp the fulness of their ideals, can scarcely shrivel even their bodies. Yet his disease did waste him to scarcely 100 pounds...
...values are realized not because of, but in spite of, the conditions of his life in Cambridge. These men are the future professors of American colleges and universities, through whom the tradition of leadership as well as the torch of knowledge are passed from generation to generation of American youth. It is difficult to imagine anything more important than that such men should acquire the liberality of mind and personal qualities that are bred by gracious human intercourse at the same time that they acquire the learning that is bred by the intense application to their studies...
...Close examination of Reporter Mencken's short story revealed traces of the cacophonous word-mongering that was later to become so characteristic of Publicist Mencken's literary style. Youth's Companion readers were obliged, in this tale of dentistry, to cope with jawbreakers such as "apocryphal," "masticators," "lagniappe" (gratu...
...play is set on a tugboat with Miss Arnold playing the cook's worthy wife. One of the deck hands is a shy, sensitive youth who falls in love with her. She educates him a bit and packs him off to the safety of dry land and a small town. Similarity to the plot of Candida was noted. The young man was played adroitly by Rex Cherryman, newcomer...
...only natural," continued Mr. Nugent, "that this type of play will continue to gain popularity. College life epitomizes the spirit of youth in this country, as in no other. It may not as yet be completely representative of the younger people of today but it is certainly an highly individual and thoroughly American theme...