Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playing is more intelligible than the play. Glenn Anders is splendidly desperate as the groping youth and Claudette Colbert not only plays the temptress with a true earthiness but is, in addition, one of the most beautiful pictures in this season's gallery. Dudley Digges gives to the atheist his usual excellent sense of values...
Presently the dead Queen was laid out in the Chapel Royal, garbed in the simple robes of a nun. Thus it was recalled that Maria Christina was in her youth a member of an Austrian order, and used to plight her vows twelve months at a time to Jesus the Christ. She had intended to become permanently the Savior's bride, but in the nick of time King Alfonso XII of Spain arrived to seek a spouse at the court of her father's cousin, Emperor Franz Josef, and the young Prinzessin's destiny was altered...
...coated figure of Evangelist Paul Rader, onetime prize fighter, dominated a group of determined antievolutionists. Defenders of the Christian Faith, they called themselves. Their plan: "To establish 48 nerve centres [one in each State] for the suppression of pernicious teachings that are undermining the very moral fibre of our youth...
These things, gleaned from her husband s talk, his letters, his diary and notebooks, Mrs. Hardy pleasantly records. As a boy he loved music, as a youth practiced architecture, and only tentatively at first did he do any writing...
...fraternity, has drawn on his long experience with American institutions of higher learning to conclude, so he says, that the undergraduates of today are very much like their fathers, and that there is no real cause for alarm among social thinkers in the mental and moral condition of the youth of the land...