Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today we honor youth, beautiful youth, consecrated youth, ideal youth, youth that won our admiration and deepest love," said Dr. William Mann Irvine, headmaster of Mercersburg Academy, at Mercersburg, Pa. "Like Sir Galahad, his moral strength was ideal because it was clean. . . . The mantle of nobility was upon him." The headmaster's wife drew back a U. S. flag revealing a portrait of Calvin Coolidge Jr. Mrs. Coolidge sat in the audience. Later, the class of 1925, classmates of her dead son, presented her with a watch...
...letter from a grandson and nephew of doctors who objects to your printing an article about an undertakers' meeting under the heading MEDICINE. It happens that my revered father, now dead for many years, was an undertaker. So perhaps I may be permitted to reply. In youth, I attended small business gatherings of undertakers with my father and never found anything to make my "gorge rise." Undertakers render a genuine and necessary service to society and they deserve all the more sympathy if that service is one which the average man finds unpleasant. They have every right to discuss...
...funerals or ironically watched a "double" substituting as bridegroom. Similarly romance never wearies of the old theme of lovers masquerading under the habiliments of the opposite sex. Even Achilles, before he was old enough to assumes a title role in the Trojan War, spent an undetected, if precarious youth among the princesses in the royal megaron. The chronicles of every age, indeed, narrate the successes of those who have effected such impersonations...
...rebellion of youth and its suppression by the constituted authorities mark the end of the present academic year. Spring always brings its crop of student literary revolutions, but this year the percentage of more notable engagements runs unusually high. Within the past few weeks four student periodicals in the Northeastern States have felt the administrative axe after publication and at least one other has been stified before birth...
...profiteer and the capitalist who stirs college youth to critical expression in these days so much as George F. Babbitt, his rotarian friends and the hosts of the "stodgy" and the commonplace. The Opposition in college today is not composed of the rigid economic dogmatists of yesterday with fixed ideas on the distribution of wealth, labor unions and the revolution, but rather is it made up of the care-free, mentally and morally loose-jointed "flapper" whose twin passions are disrespect and personal nonesty and whose favorite word is "moron." It is all very gay and most earnestly flippant. Evans...