Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arturo Peralta Ramos, recently Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, originally Miss Millicent Rogers of New York, famed heiress, returned to Manhattan, last week on the S. S. Western World, with her present Argentine husband after a brief honeymoon in South America. He, a warmly handsome and appetizing youth, will shortly settle down to toil as a member of J. P. Benkard & Co., Manhattan brokers...
...House of the Jesuits at Rome there had come and yanked the ancient bellpull a decently dressed youth who announced himself as Signor De Angelis. He must, he said, he must make an important confession to good Father Tacchi-Venturi. The porter, rubbing sleepy eyes, told the youth that his desired confessor was immersed in study, could not be disturbed. Next day Signor De Angelis returned, yanked the bell still more violently, and prevailed upon the porter to usher him into the Jesuit's study...
Lord Birkenhead has said of "Tay Pay" that if he had been willing to swerve from his quixotic Irish Nationalism "he could have occupied some of the highest offices of State." Instead he has remained "Tay Pay," a man who, as the friends and causes of his youth have died, has made innumerable new friends but kept the causes that he serves peculiar to himself...
...M.I.T., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics Edward Pearson Warner, Vice President Elisha Lee of the Pennsylvania Railroad, General Manager Frank W. Lovejoy of the Eastman Kodak Co., Vice President Frank B. Jewett of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and others will then select the most promising youth, who will enter M.I.T. next autumn on a four-year scholarship given by the Youth's Companion...
Tony also encountered talent of another type-Natalie, the wife of Arthur Gortion. She was a Russian noblewoman of dark, warm beauty. Gortion had begun to look on her as an indiscretion of his youth; she locked her door at night and saw little of him or of the townsfolk. So it was natural that Natalie and Tony, both out of place in Berkenmeer society, should become illicit lovers. One day, Tony took her away. He obtained money from Berkenmeer boosters, hostile to Gortion, to form an aviation company. Natalie and he went barnstorming at county fairs, grabbing quick lunches...