Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Think of a government spending nearly $20,000,000 to debauch its youth!" cried Mrs. Alice Foote MacDougall, famed operatrix of tea and coffee shops in Manhattan, in a Plain Talk article...
Polite, Brewer Busch seldom foams over in public against the law which outlawed his ancestral business. But last week he said: "After eight years of miserable Prohibition failure, with its paralyzing corruption, its demoralization of youth, its rum-running, moonshining, bootlegging and consequent terrifying crime and other deep-seated evils -for all of which the Anti-Saloon League is directly responsible- Mr. Cherrington ["Educational Director" of the League] seems to be in mortal fear lest what was once the brewing industry should exercise good citizenship by helping to clear up the nauseating mess into which the Anti-Saloon League...
...placid and usually reclining cows of Holland seem like living symbols of Peace. They gave of their milk, last week, to refresh and quench the thirst of some 500 non-tippling adolescents, who assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress...
Delegates representing the Communist Youth Internationale, the Y. M. C. A., the Socialist Youth Internationale and the Jewish World Youth Organization hobnobbed, spoke pieces, debated, passed pacifist resolutions, and drank an informal milk toast to Peace...
...middle-aged Pan with monkey glands-such was the hazy impression, if any, of Havelock Ellis, until his Dance of Life expounded to thoughtful English and U. S. youth a philosophy of love and joy founded upon sound medico-psychological principles. The present biography condones the popular success of Dance of Life since that work displays neither the gamut of Ellis' scientific knowledge nor the depth of his philosophy of beauty as reflected in his Affirmations, Sex in Relation to Society, Little Essays of Love and Virtue, Impressions and Comments. Nineteen-year-old Ellis, distressed by his own patchy...