Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...teeth. My mouth is changed, too, having become larger and wrinkled at the corners. Behold what a beautiful object I am..." To be sure this was written when she was 46 years of age, but no one has even said that she was anything but ugly, even in her youth...
...fourth* largest in the world, 130 feet longer than the Cathedral of Seville, costing more than $10,000,000 which is to be raised by public subscription. The foundation stone was laid by King Edward in July, 1904. The design, chosen from competition, was the work of a youth, done in his spare time. Gilbert Scott, the designer, grandson of the famed architect Sir Gilbert Scott, was a pupil in an architect's office when the competition was announced; he made his drawings after finishing his office work. Salisbury, "Queen of English Cathedrals," was the last to be dedicated...
...novel, The Salamander, shows how times have changed, for the book in its time was a sensation, dealing as it did with girls who dared everything in order to accumulate a little experience. Now it seems like just a modest little evening at home, compared to all the Flaming Youth's that have lately tried to set the screen on fire. In order to put novelty into it, the heroine is made to say, with the pertinacity of a parrot, "I'm a good girl; I expect a man to make one mistake-but only one." Betty Compson...
...single bough; 'In youth it sheltered me, and I will...
...Marr so that he may continue to teach them. The six professors, as one man, declared that "it makes no difference whether an artist is 65 or 25. A young man may express a musty spirit in his work, and the older man one that breathes the ardor of youth." Von Marr reversed the usual order of things, for he emigrated to Europe to seek his fame and fortune, and became the first and only State-employed professor of painting of American birth in Germany. Some of his paintings hang in the Munich Kunstverein...