Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S DIARIES OF BOYHOOD AND YOUTH...
...discussed. Will Comba and Pennock be able to play, and will Yankee slugging break through Cardinal pitching? Such are the questions that will animate barber shop debate, for the next few days and cause thousands of fans to storm the gates, ruin their hats and larynxes and regain their youth in a grand orgy of sport mania...
Rubber Jerry Luvadis, Announcer Joe Humphreys and Estelle Taylor, who in comparatively private life is Mrs. Jack Dempsey, also appear in roles which approximate their normal occupations. Mrs. Dempsey is not, as commonly supposed, a star entirely of the screen; in her early youth an invalid, she grew up to be first a beauty-contest winner, then an actress in stock companies as well as the cinema. She and her husband both speak their lines in The Big Fight in a curious but not unattractive monotone...
Died. George Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London. He owned race horses for 50 years, never placed a bet, won only one English classic. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn...
...football team; Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus might teach them something about how men may be forlorn and heroes. They, like Herodotus, would see the eternal and astounding spectacle of a fantastic king marching an army through wild mountains by the sea; later, they would hear of the careless youth of Athens who "had never tasted war." Some would imitate not Oscar Wilde but Alcibiades who sliced the noses off of the gods before he sailed to war, in Sicily, across a stormy sea. They might share Plato's dream of a fair, impossible republic and they might share...