Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warrior", strong, serene and steadfast, in the full meaning of the poet's phrase--with, I imagine, something of the Puritan's delight in the joy of righteous conflict. We rejoice that you are still clad in your shining armor; that your soul is radiant with the spirit of youth...
...this play both the leading man and lady are given exceptional chances to show their versatility. In the prologue Waltor Gilbert imitates a reckless youth and in subsequent scenes a settled man of forty. Similarly Ann Mason is called upon to distinguish between the characters of a mother and her daughter. These difficult assignments, however, are very well fulfilled, which helps to keep "The Faithful Heart" from repeating its New York failure...
...promise to divorce her husband and make a respectable man out of her lover. But in the morning, when the impossible but wealthy husband arrives, she forces her night-owl to hoot some efficient lies that restore her to her spouse. The game of tag is over?and the youth is it. He finds he has been spending the night with a Fata Morgana?a will o' the wisp beauty, who dissolves with the morning mists. In its sense of the immense calamity of adolescent rebuff in love, this play by Ernest Vajda borders on tragedy, saved by a youthful...
...misfortune, of course, attaches to the devoted followers of the sport in the University and to those ambitious youths who would like to become devotees if they had an opportunity. A game, which, like squash, can be continued in later life with all the benefits and eagerness of youth golf deserves every facility and stimulus which can be given it. But two hundred thousand dollars looms rather large on a college horizon--and even if some generous benefactor should present the entire sum with no strings attached, such as a Chairman in Anglo-Saxon poetry or India philology it might...
...upon the questionable charms of a delicately tinted cheek, or the alluring curve of a car mine lip, if one can take stock in the theories of Professor Charles Lalo, of the Sorbonne, who has just published monumental treatise on "The Bankruptcy of Beauty." Professor Lalo asserts that "mere youth" presumably with its attendant attractions "must not hope to compete in the lists of gallantry with the riper charms of experience, conscious coquetry, and the maturer ability of self-abnegation...