Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember well an occasion when the hose was turned on me. As Dean of the College I was telling the Faculty at the final meeting of the year the records of those candidates for the degree of A.B. who had not met all the requirements. One youth was still deficient in Freshman prescribed English, in which he had failed annually. I believe that in other respects his record was clear. When presenting his case I had to admit his apparent hopelessness in this one subject; but I must have laid such stress as I could on what he had accomplished...
...whistled through the windows of his private suite in Memorial Hall. After a night spent at a genuine Intercollegiate Ball the zestful zephyrs did the trick for the old reprobate and he awoke at dawn with roses in his cheeks and a curl in his blond hair. Ah, yes. Youth has come to town. Youth, strong and vigorous, is the style today. And best of all, the Vagabond is young again. And chipper, too, my lads...
Today is one in a year. The Vagabond could not think of missing it with its rare combination of youth and Red Men who really, as science tells, are Green...
Excuse for the cartoon: Youth Pravda has just started a series of feature articles on capitalist countries, the U. S. coming first last week, with the feature flanked by an editorial entitled To Know Our Enemies in Order to Hate Them...
...sing the role she created 24 years ago. Oldsters could scarcely believe the newspapers and the great electric sign which flashed outside the theatre. But they bought tickets just the same, and went and wept and cheered. For Fritzi Scheff, now 50, still gives the illusion of sprightly youth, still plays the snare drums as the mascot of the troops, still sings bewitchingly "Kiss Me Again." Moist-eyed oldsters marveled and reminisced...