Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore stern, close-lipped President-Elect Irigoyen was thoroughly vexed, last week, and perhaps slightly perturbed at the effect which The Road to Buenos Ayres may have upon U. S. friendship for Argentina. None knows better than "Boss" Irigoyen how much truth is in the book; for as a youth he was a Police Captain in Buenos Aires (1873) and later Chief of Police...
...Moreover among the faithful there grows carelessness of matters religious and of ancient tradition whereby Christian life is supported, domestic society regulated and the sanctity of matrimony defended. The education of youth is completely neglected or spoiled by too effeminate attentions, while the Church even has been deprived of the right to educate youth. Christian modesty is completely forgotten in the mode of dressing and living, especially of women...
...said John Davison Rockefeller, at the age of 60, when he was fingering the yellowed leaves of a precious document, his own Ledger A, which he had kept as a 16-year-old assistant bookkeeper in a Cleveland commission house. That all-inclusive creed, conceived in youth, ex- pressed at the philosopher's age, was the lone recorded feat of Mr. Rockefeller's imagination. Otherwise, he has exhibited no great creative imagination. But give even a street car conductor a mighty creed, give him an almost perfect mathematical determination to carry it out, and he will build tracks...
...corporations have represented foreign investment in the U. S. These Spaniards signify the opposite: U. S. interests in foreign countries. When the Marques de Urquijo's heir came to the U. S. to learn banking, reporters captioned him as "Friend of J. P. Mor-gan." The youth was not, in fact, on chitchatting terms with Mr. Morgan; it was merely that the House of Morgan, in the I. T. & T. and other affairs, was associated with the House of Urquijo. Just as Mr. Morgan had gone in his youth to London, then the world's financial capital...
Here is a book concerned almost wholly with problems of war which nevertheless makes very absorbing reading for the laymen. Devoting but three well written chapters to the uninteresting youth of Jackson, Mr. Tate almost immediately swings his hero into action--at West Point, in the Mexican War, and finally in the Civil War which was to bring him his great fame and his death from pneumonia shortly after his great flank march at Chancellorsville...