Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Purdue came to Cambridge faintly discouraged. Their great threat, Cotton Wilcox, was injured on the side lines. Into his shoes stepped a Texas youth, Ralph Welch, who ran, kicked and passed his way through a sturdy but bewildered Harvard team to steer Purdue to an easy 19-0 victory. Purdue played western, open football. Harvard, old fashioned, scarcely threatened. Purdue scored in the first three quarters, was on Harvard's three yard line when the game ended...
...hoax and wrote articles showing how too much philosophy was being inserted into callow brains. Educators were faced with a grave dilemma, when it seemed probable that the death rate of colleges would exceed applications for entrance. Soon came the Hall-Mills and Snyder-Gray murder cases, and the "youth suicide wave" was forgotten...
...might take exception to the language. In spots it is rough and, it seems to me, out of place on the printed page. Perhaps it is characteristic of our age, but not more so than of most ages. Somehow it is reminiscent of "Flaming Youth" or "The Plastic Age," literature acceptable to adolescent prep-school minds but hardly of lasting importance...
...pale. To be sure Miss Hopkins was called upon to disrobe almost constantly; but that sort of thing can go only so far. She played the part of a music hall dancer who contrived to get herself adopted by a Baroness in order to marry a wealthy English youth. Five minutes before the wedding the youth, learning all, is distraught with her deceit. Furious at the collapse of his true love she rips off her wedding dress and flees the gathering, just as the guest of honor a stuffy, haughty prince, sweeps majestically upon the scene. This may sound pretty...
...this new play Speakeasy. He wrote it in collaboration with one George Rosener, sometimes an actor in musical shows. Together they evolved the tale of going, going, going, but not quite gone wrong young woman. The heroine's enemy is a wicked crook; her savior, a stainless Princeton youth who slays the enemy. The play is sordid, the cast plenty good enough...