Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Helen Wills, California tennis girl, as head of the sports division of the Women's Committee. Reason: "Youth's earnest desire to be of service...
...instance, I have made careful inquiries and I regret that so far I cannot find: (a) The $10,000,000 I am said to have made in my early youth, or even middle age, or altogether, or any respectable part of it. (b) The investments that I am supposed to have in Great Britain...
...streamlet for which West Branch* is named. Part of the villagers' preparations had been to restore, with a dam, what used to be the Old Swimming Hole. The Nominee eyed the work and then said to Newton C. Butler, one of the three playmates of his youth whom he had found still in West Branch: "No, this is not the place at all. I think it is up yonder by that tree...
Like bootleg champagne is the synthetic "diary" of a Soviet schoolboy,*** actually written by a Soviet schoolmaster. Though the perverse temptations of adolescence are decadently dwelt upon, the general picture of riotous, exuberant democracy in a Soviet schoolroom glows with the ruddy crudity of triumphant youth...
...ranch, an old Chinaman named Low Chuck and three others. Then, in an automobile which had belonged to one of his enemies, Leung Ling set out for ways that were dark. California police, while they were perturbed, seemed less troubled than they were last spring when a U. S. youth hacked one small girl...