Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will any one argue that war is not a corrupter of youth? Its damage to the souls of men is greater than its material damage. And, since war is what it is, the sooner mothers know the truth the sooner war will be abolished...
...Cadet Trumbull. The Civil War interrupts their incipient idyll. Cadet Trumbull is a Northerner, the Frietchies being, it will be remembered, one of the finer families of slaveholding Frederick, Md. When the times comes for Barbara to say the historic "Shoot if you must this old grey head," her youth and the presence of Trumbull, now a badly wounded Union captain, suggest to her the variation: "Shoot and I'll thank...
...Thomas Cusack, a youth in his teens, started a business with only a paint pot and brush and a remarkable personality as assets. The business consisted in painting advertising signs on the sides of buildings in a small way. Gradually, he took to building billboards of his own, and leasing suitable walls and other locations for outdoor advertisements...
...British political heroes past and present: Of Lloyd George, ex-Premier. "Lloyd George loves a crowd more than himself. He has more ideas and treats them with fickle and impartial humor." Of Lord Curzon, ex-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. "His natural self made many friends in his youth, but for some unknown reason he grafted onto that brilliant and hospitable self a certain ceremonious nonconducting personality which estranges intimacy and his sense of humor-which is of the highest quality-never has been focused on himself." Of Ramsay MacDonald, Premier. "Ramsay MacDonald watches and defends himself, but whether...
...first lecture will be given on October 12 by Charles William Eliot '53, President of Harvard University, Emeritus, who will take for his topic "Religion for Modern Youth". This will be given in the Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building. The other lectures in the series, however, will be given in Phillips Brooks House...