Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because Hero McCartney has not been able to "settle down" he was on trial, last week in London, before the Lord Chief Justice of England-as a spy. In the dock with him was a German youth, one George Hansen, 24. Both were charged with recent spying in behalf of Soviet Russia and with unsuccessful attempts to purchase state secrets from a faithful employe, George Monkland, who had denounced them to Scotland Yard...
...Youth. Born 73 years ago on a farm in Lorain County, Ohio, child Herrick was not even then so remote from France and culture as to escape frequent readings aloud by his father of many a "standard work," among them those of Victor Hugo...
That unsavory gentleman, irate because his daughter has eloped with a youth of an opposing race, frantic because he could not extract the pound of flesh which was the price of his loans to one Bassanio, is not one for starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...
...recent German literary movement we find a great many tendencies and a remarkable lack of unity." This was the introductory statement from which Klaus Mann developed his thesis of the youth movement of Germany, in Emerson Hall before an appreciative audience of considerable size last night...
...Germans both agreed on the fact that America's future lay in her youth and her size. Europe being too small and old to withstand the surge of modern civilization...