Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season, will speak Mr. White has a long record of achievement as a player and referee, and is at present, Vice-president of the Boston Referee's Association. During the match between the English and Scotch team in this country last year, Mr. White was the referee. In his youth, he was a well known payer on junior teams in Scotland. While in this country, he has always been prominently identified with the game, playing with the Boston Rovers, and for two years, managing the championship Riverdale team...
TARNISH-The philosophies of sacred and profane love and their application to the modern youth...
...Bismarck's birthday. All Fools' Day in other lands, was celebrated by a monarchist outbreak in Berlin. "Bismarck German Youth" assembled at Friedrichruhe, near Hamburg, and recited the Nationalist creed...
MANY MINDS-Carl Van Doren-Knopf ($2.50). In this new volume of critical essays, Mr. Van Doren again applies a skilful scalpel to his literary contemporaries. The very titles of the chapters are a triumph: Smartness and Light, for H. L. Mencken; Youth and Wings, for Edna St. Vincent Millay; Flame and Slag, for Carl Sandburg; Beyond Grammar, for Ring Lardner. He covers the field of philosophers, poets, wits, essayists. His estimates are tempered with sympathy, humor, real understanding. He praises and blames ; weighs faults against virtues. One reads on absorbedly for some time before one becomes subtly conscious that...
...younger Johnson has written many novels, countless short stories, a play and other types of literary fodder. Those who suspected him of writing Flaming Youth could not very well have known his conservative habits. To see him in golf clothes is to be assured that he never could have indulged in the frankly disturbing pages of that sexed masterpiece. Incidentally, when I discovered who actually did write it the other day, I had a bad half hour...