Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enters. As he paces slowly forward, his crown is a mount of diadems, his train seems to stretch behind inimitably, borne by chubby pages with neat legs and little slim Court swords. His Majesty is England, rich, historic. When he speaks, his Dominions will listen, in their newness and youth...
...Mencken, writer, was told indirectly that his influence among the youth of the nation had been hung in a closet. "Even in a freshman class when one ventures a 'Menckenism,' the others smile," said Robert Hillyer, poet, teacher at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who is going to the Harvard faculty next autumn...
...about the head man and leading lady. As he has done since 1920 William T. Tilden, 2nd, placed first in the ranking list of U. S. tournament tennis players. Helen Wills, struck from the 1926 list by appendicitis, returned to the top of the female troupe. Among the males youth assumed a predominance shocking to spry ancients. In the first ten Tilden, Francis T. Hunter, No. 2, and Manuel Alonso, one-time Spanish subject, No. 4, were the only veterans. Third place went to George M. Lott, Jr., Michigan undergraduate, the highest ranking ever bestowed upon the middle west. Notables...
...neighbors, including the ineffective young swain, felt obligated to expel her. Chastity went without saying in the '90's, until Playwright Henry Arthur Jones said several things about it defending Mrs. Dane. Reviews of the play were of two opinions. Older theatregoers remembered the sex dialectics of their youth. Young ones were mystified by a creed of elaborate duplicity. The play was an ambiguous first choice by the new company...
Some of the works that "A. E." has published are the following: "Homeward", "Songs By the Way", "The Earth Breath", "Literary Ideals in Ireland", "The Nuts of Knowledge", "The Mask of Apollo", "Deirdre", "By Still Waters", "The Hero in Man", "The Renewal of Youth", and "Gods...