Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scatterbrained John Thoening, a youth, wished to come to the U. S. He secured a visaed passport, but when he set out to buy a boat ticket John Thoening found that he had too little money. So he took a jug of water, a string of sausages, some pumpernickel, a hammock and crawled into a big wooden box. A friend nailed up the box and wrote on the top of it an address in West 84th Street, Manhattan. The box was put aboard the Hamburg American liner, Cleveland; by the time that the Cleveland reached the high seas, the inside...
...years after the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Phillips founded a boys academy at Andover, Mass. Throughout one hundred and fifty years his legacy to the youth of America has grown and prospered. At all times in the course of its long history Andover Academy has held undisputed rank among the best, as well as the earliest, of American preparatory schools...
Second in line for the Spanish Throne is Don Jaime, 19, a thickset, powerfully athletic youth, but congenitally deaf and mute. He now "hears" by "lip reading,"' and has been taught to make intelligible sounds; but Spaniards scarcely deem him fit to be their King...
...principle, opposed to athletics but that when competitions became too exhibitionistic, he felt compelled to frown. Governmental circles in Rome regarded the Pope's letter as another manifestation of the Vatican's opposition to what the Pope calls "Fascist monopolization of the education of youth." At the end of his document the Pontiff gave a hint as to how his own theories contrasted with Fascist practices. It was a calm and holy hint...
...HOUSTON, COLOSSUS IN BUCKSKIN-George Creel-Cosmopolitan ($3). The annexation of Texas was so much a matter of politics that the real issues, violent and blood-spattered, are dimmed. George Creel* brings them to light through the colorful story of Sam Houston, dreamer, drunkard, man of action. A youth, in Tennessee, he showed dangerous scholastic tendencies, poring over Pope's Iliad, so his brothers set him clerking in the village store. Seeking refuge with the Cherokees, Sam announced in grandiloquent terms worthy of his master, Pope, that he preferred measuring deer tracks to tape; and later married a squaw...