Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From our youth we have been nourished, weaned, rocked to sleep--in the good old cradle daze later entertained, diverted, but seldom amused, by stories of Harvard men, or further concerning Harvard men. I say we have not been amused: perhaps that is a trifle strong Whenever the story teller speaks as if his mouth were harboring a hot potato and says that in the way they talk around Boston, we laugh. That is only natural. But we also assume Harvard to have undergone adaptation to environment. A Harvard men must say "car" like a sheep with a cold...
...President Arthur H. Sapp of Rotary International was on hand. He reported on Modern Youth. "Modern youth," said President Sapp, "has neither hope of heaven nor fear of hell. He commits suicide as a part of his college course, and he and his sisters fly across the seas knowing that saltwater is a sure cure for all ills...
...There is a dash and abandon among the youth of our land that is inspiring and terrible to contemplate...
...moved through its second week in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the presiding jurist, Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons, became more & more an object of public interest. Justice Siddons is a great-grandson of the late Actress Sarah Kemble Siddons. Concerning himself he says: "In my youth I thought my choice of a life's work would be either journalism or the stage. But fate decreed that I should become a lawyer. Otherwise-well, who can say what might have happened? In so far as I know, no one is carrying on the stage tradition...
...QUEST OF YOUTH-Jeffery Farnol-Little Brown ($2.50). Sir Marmaduke Anthony Ashley John de la Pole Vane-Temperly not unnaturally grows tired of a solitude broken only by hearing his faithful servant John Hobbs speak his name in a respectful whisper through the corridors of a big mansion. In Hessian boots and quest of youth, he ventures over the blood-and-thunderous landscape on which he finds, among other adventures, his wife who had left him 20 years before and Eve-Ann Ash, the girl he kisses on the last page. This is after Jasper Shrig, detective, has made sure...