Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like everyone else here nobody will know whether I am just getting up or just going to bed. Perhaps I will be able to retrieve my reputation for lateness that has caused me to be known as 'the late Mayor of New York.' " Mayor Walker's youth as well as his genial behavior caused vast astonishment and pleasure to Fascist observers. Said Mayor Walker: "I am something of a Fascist myself...
...Youth's Companion. That portion of the population sometimes insultingly termed "kiddies" has a new toy. It is a familiar toy, enlarged and repainted. The Youth's Companion, famed youth's companion, appears this month monthly. It is larger?more pictures, more stories, more advertising. The editor reports no change of policy, purpose or ideals, these having remained the same since the paper was founded by Nathaniel P. Willis. Mr. Willis then stated: "This is a day of particular care for youth. Our children are and characters are prepared for the scenes and duties of a brighter day." With these...
...wanted to be a musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon...
...result of what she refers to proudly as "my operation." Some years ago famed Dr. Serge Voronov of Paris advertised for an elderly female willing to submit to a transfer of monkey glands. Only one person in the world was adventurous enough to seek the fountain of youth under the surgeon's guidance-Mrs. King. The resultant publicity helped "make" Dr. Voronov. It delighted Mrs. King. It was like being before the public again. Whenever she walked out on the boulevards she wore a metal monkey pinned to her hat. The monkey glands seem to have worked. Besides, contributing...
...enamel blossom. Wilfred Hough is the bloodless wraith of what was a bright young secretary a few years ago, before Miriam used him. A young voodoo Negress moves through the house, darkness serving darkness in silence, and with a small drum. Finally, there is the narrator, Oscar Fitzalan, a youth engaged to furnish musical accom- paniments for Richard Pride's mysteries...