Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beginning. At 26 he began as an actor of elderly character roles. Otto Brahm, Berlin impressario, offered the youth a bril liant opportunity to play in the German capital. When the time drew near for him to leave, Reinhardt regretted his acceptance, begged to be excused from the enticements of "an uncertain career" in the great city. But Herr Brahm stood adamant on his contract rights and the young man was obliged to break away from his enchanted Salzburg...
...curious public breathed more easily. Ah, yes, to be sure, what a fitting transition; from the pinnacle of U. S. aspiration to a position of cloistered distinction, where Mr. Coolidge could round out his days impressing lofty tradition upon malleable youth by quiet example. No voice from Amherst spoke out to deny or affirm the Times' hint. President Coolidge of Amherst College seemed a development as likely as it was fitting...
...spring day in 1888 a conservative-looking youth marched into the office of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, got a job as a reporter. Eight years later he started to write editorials. In 1911 he was chief editorial writer. In 1922 he became editor...
Frank X. Shields is National Junior Tennis Champion. Shields, New York youth, ploughed through five bitter sets at Forest Hills, L. I., to win 7-5, 6-8, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4, from Julius Seligson, also New York. Shields was tired but happy. Last winter he was beaten for the Indoor Junior championship by this same Seligson...
Irvin Nixon, the 15-year-old Hertford youth, victim of a ghastly practical joke which nearly cost him his life, was released from the Elizabeth City Hospital Sunday morning. Young Nixon was brought to the hospital last week in a frightful condition from the effects of a blast of air from a powerful air compressor injected into his interior by a playmate. The nozzle of the air hose was thrust into the posterior of the youth and the air blast literally blew the contents of his bowels up and through his mouth and nostrils. He was brought to the hospital...