Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage in this country has had a long youth and a great opportunity for experimentation. It has prospered through the ability of the actors to fall on their feet. Until recent years the great majority of the players have had little education outside the rough and tumble school of the theatre. Through such a life the actor has broadened surprisingly...
This is all highly gratifying. We had feared out this way that the eastern fountains of learning were drying up. We had harbored the suspicion that youth in the east was, if not dead, at least pale and specter-thin. We saw decadence where once had been virility. We remembered recent intersectional games and we thought that down east they had too much blue blood and not enough...
...were wrong. We sold youth short. Their football players down east may not amount to much but when it comes to fighting, editors they are supreme. --Chicago Tribune...
Takes the fair youth of England fresh from school...
...first phase of intense feeling has now passed. Like mature revolutionists, youth now becomes sober and looks round. There has been notable achievement inevitably marred by excesses, yet despite the latter, the success of their efforts is indisputable. And as a result of the struggle, college men, and not a mere handful either, have established themselves in the literary firmament. Those who come after, those who have not as yet graduated from college, will find their way easier. They will not be swayed by the heat of conflict; nor will they have to contend with overwhelming opposition. If possessed with...