Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parker Gilbert. The hymn of Fascist Italy, often bellowed by Benito Mussolini, exalts "Youth! Youth...
Last week Mr. Young identified himself with the "Youth! Youth!" ideal and reminisced with blazing frankness anent "Young Gilbert...
...German representatives looked askance at me," said Mr. Young, "when I said I was going to suggest a boy 32 years old to handle that great piece of machinery, and it is certainly a great satisfaction that he has given such a striking demonstration of what an American youth can do. We don't have to wait until he is 50 or 60 to give him a place of power...
Caprice. "Life is so much easier," says the dyspeptic but incorrigibly playful Albert Von Echardt, "when you have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father...
...TOWER-William Butler Yeats- Macmillan ($2.25). Of contemporary poets many are bold, curious, fascinating; few are enduring. One of the few is Yeats, who in his triumphant youth brandished the wild beauty of Ireland with rich imagery of folklore, and in his reluctant 60's writes _a slim volume on old age reduced to platonic abstractions. What shall I do with this absurdity 0 heart, 0 troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a god's tail? But even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river...