Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover was subject to croup when young and laid out for dead not long after his first birthday. Returning to life, he played vigorously with other small Midwesterners, including Osage pa-poosesf at Pawhuska, Okla., where his Uncle Laban Miles lived. Herbert trapped rabbits, learned to fish, read the Youth's Companion and Robinson Crusoe (secretly, for Quakers are strict) and when he was 11 went to live with another uncle, Dr. John Minthorn, in Newberg, Ore. His father and mother had died...
...story has not grown in stature since Adami transcribed it, nor has the music. It remains a rather unhappy medium between Camille and Sappho-with the fancy lady in this particular case called Magda, her paunchy patron-Rambaldo, the innocent youth for whom she flies her love-nest-Ruggiero, and for comic relief-a maid, a poet. Unlike Camille & Sappho the comic relief wins out, Ruggiero's intentions prove a little too honorable-and the swallow flies back home. Unlike the earlier Puccini scores, the element of tragedy is missing from the soft, curving arias and duets. Unlike Monte...
...attention of His Holiness was not, however, directed entirely toward the actions of his U. S. servants. He spoke to 1,000 new members of the Catholic Youth Associations on the subject of athletic and other amusements, saying in heartfelt manner: "Amusements serve to refresh the spirit which otherwise would be too strained and unable to perform with satisfactory capacity its high noble functions...
...giant loves Ellen, follows her. He joins a circus, and persuades her to be a sideshow freak also. Ellen gives Brian to a school teacher for adoption, and there the lachrymation bursts forth. Years afterward the mother is a friendly charwoman, finally a nurse in a wealthy family. A youth comes courting, confiding to the old nurse his love for her charge. Thus mother and son meet; padding back and forth in front of the aristocratic house is the lanky giant, now a policeman. War arrives; the giant takes the boy to war; they return, the young couple marry...
...Along with the great mass of experiments tried upon him the average student would appreciate a simplification of education. Until he ceases to be dumbfounded by the intricacies of the paths he is expected to tread and can be shown the objective of his scholastic endeavors, the active--minded youth will continue either to spend more time on his outside activities or drift aimlessly along through his college career...