Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parents who keep a vigilant eye upon the reading matter set before their offspring had a start last week as they scrutinized the table of contents of that whole some publication for boys and girls, the Youth's Companion.* What was this? A story by d to subject themselves to a shocking experience in defense of their children's innocence...
...written by H. L. Mencken, colyumist, lexicographer, magazine editor, the man who named the Baptist Belt and who derides his less accomplished countrymen as "snouting yokels." It had been written by an H. L. Mencken, aged 20, reporter on the Baltimore Morning Herald; a lad who had informed the Youth's Companion that he contemplated working up a series of boys' stories; a lad who three years afterwards had the city editor's desk on his newspaper, in five years the head editor's desk of the Baltimore Evening Herald, in 25 years the title (con- ferred by Critic Ernest...
...through the thin ice near the shore and swam out to them, bringing first one of them to shore and then returning for the other. By the time he had reached the spot for the second time he was forced to dive under the water and bring the second youth to the surface...
...89th birthday the class of '89 made me a member. It was a beautiful and most welcome hospitality. It is renewing my youth; it takes 33 years off from my age and associates me with the healthy and vigorous maturity of the class of '89. Dr. Faust sold himself to the devil to gain the results, and the use he made of it sent him to Hell. But the inspiration and joy of camaraderie with the class of '89 is the full realization of the Yale spirit...
...graduate for his shallow education, revealed a lack of sympathy for and understanding of college students, faced as they are by the baffling problem of acquiring an education. His latest article begins with the old unsympathetic note. He says "destructive criticism is the natural attitude of the youth of today." He may be pardoned for this hangover from his old point of view, however, since at last he shows a real understanding of the undergraduate's problem. What "The Old Dog" terms "destructive criticism" on the part of youth is aimed, he says, at "the cold-blooded methods of modern...