Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of this article is to put facts into the hands of the American people. The public has not passed upon the question of military training for youth. It has registered opposition to the idea of universal compulsory training but upon the present near-substitute it has not spoken. Congress, under the emotion of a great European war, put into effect the National Defense Act, and in so doing authorized the President of the United States to introduce military training into civil educational institutions; the War Department is now showing what this may mean, but the general public has hardly...
Incredible as it may seem, flaming youth still flames in the movies. It has flared up most recently in "We Moderns" at the Metropolitan, a picture based, it is said, on Israel Zangwill's play about the younger generation in England. In this film Colleen Moore, the original flaming youth girl, sets out to make the flapper look old-fashioned and outdo all her previous feats in one glorious burst of flamboyant adolescence...
...plot of the book has as its theme a reputation of the abuse recently heaped on the younger generation and satirizes the usual flaming youth. The older generation is represented by a publicity craving garter manufacturer...
...through the Caucasus and in Paris, Evreinov still knows how to keep us amused in the same fanciful way. Evreinov, the musician who had for his music master Rimski-Korsakov, can still play fantastically upon every mood. Like the Spanish dramatist, Benavente, he had followed the circus in his youth and still knows how to give his audience circuses as well as bread. The slendor boy who at the age of thirteen had performed as an equillbrist in the little Russian village circus had grown up into the man of forty-six who still holds our attention fixed...
...committee in charge of the Greater Boston conference is composed of Claude shotts, massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dorothy Bourne, Boston University; Margaret Hummull, Secretary for Presbyterian Women in Boston, Abraham Wirin, Secretary of the Fellowship of Youth and Peace, and F.V. Field '27, of Harvard. The Harvard committee appointed by the Student Council, consists of F.V. Field '27, H. W. Foote '27, and L. H. Duggan '27. This committee will announce a list of delegates from the University later in the week...