Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like John Selman, who resented any one else killing men in "his" town. Author White's complex...
Although many a youth now enters college in search of pleasure and finds it, it is absurd to assert that as the sole motive the going to college--even in this pleasure-loving age. Neither the older nor the younger generation could be so unanimous in a single motive. Both, it seems fair to say, were prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting...
...have an especial appeal to school teachers and educators in general. Invitations have been sent to every educator in Greater Boston. Professor Mearns emphasizes that his lecture is not only for teachers, but for parents as well, as he wants to explain how it is possible to get "from youth a richer product than is commonly obtained, and to give ample illustration of that product...
...were essential in the college in order that it retain its vitality, and prepare men for the graduate and professional schools and for citizenship; that such interest and respect are not in American colleges what they should be. I said that this is not due to the fact that youth is naturally self-indulgent or indolent; that in time of war college students would not volunteer for a regiment that would be comfortably and safely housed and exposed to no danger, but would strive to get into the regiment that was going to the front, amidst privation, wounds and death...
Embellished with Grange's own quaint philosophy, captioned with the chaste and simple statement: "This is my real story. I have authorized its publication," this series of articles will provide the youth of America with a mark to shoot at beside which George Washington's veracity will pale into insignificance. Yet the miracle of it is not that this greatest American of our day has finally received full recognition, but that this homely material could inspire in a Yale halfback such depths of lyric emotion...