Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are, as he thinks, three of these. One, a girl, is a shy little songbird from Italy, whose mother was a reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English...
...Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, who roundly flayed U. S. public schools for their excessive cost, their waste of youth's time, their superficial courses, their poor preparation for college. Said President Lowell: "The saying that there are many ways of killing a cat besides choking it with butter can be applied to American schools in more than one sense. . . . What we need is a good mental training, an accurate and thorough habit of mind, not a frittering away of the attention by a multitude of small matters of which the pupil does not get enough to develop...
General John Joseph Pershing asked his son Francis Warren Pershing not to row on the Yale Freshman crew this year. Reason: The General considers rowing too strenuous for a youth of his son's physique...
...Cousin Tomlin's demise, her husband implored the doctor to let it die. For baby Rex had a little horn above his left ear. But Rex was not allowed to die. He was cherished and guided from squalling infancy to wobbly-kneed childhood, to brooding, weak-stomached youth; and from the path of his progress Anne cast aside all obstacles. "The world was made for well people to live in," she had cried when she heard of Tomlin's death. Now she said: "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh. . . ." A good many...
...play was first shown in London in 1924, enjoying a great success, and was then brought to New York to be smothered within a fortnight. Hereabouts it is known only as a printed play, the work of a poet, cut off in the prime of his youth, whose imagination was fantastic, realistic, and glamorous...