Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old high school youth fired a revolver six times, in Warsaw, last week, and threw the Soviet Government into a state of such excitement that the official Soviet newspaper Isvestia soon accused Chancellor of the British Exchequer Winston S. Churchill of directing a secret band of assassins pledged to exterminate Soviet officials. Isvestia added, explanatorily: "London is a nest of murderers." Soviet War Minister Clemence Voroshilov declared: "The British maintain a band of murderers and brigands in our country." What banal and sordid crime provoked these flamboyant charges...
Half an hour later MM. Rosengolz and Vojkov were pacing up and down the platform deep in talk. Suddenly a youth accosted them. He was a high school student of Vilna . . . Boris Kovenko, he _ said. Would Soviet Minister Vojkov please grant him a passport to enter Russia? He had applied often at the Soviet Legation, but had been refused for no reason that he could understand. Would not the Soviet Minister grant his request...
Such were words spoken at Rome last week by Gino Lucetti, a youth whose bomb glanced harmlessly off the limousine of Signor Benito Mussolini (TIME, Sept. 20), as the Premier was motoring slowly toward his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome. Signer Lucetti, some six feet tall, but with refined, sensitive features, confessed last week in a detached monotone. Spectators noted that he had thrust sockless feet into a pair of battered shoes, wore unpressed duck trousers, a collarless shirt, a saggy coat...
...prevent a recurrence of these battles of his youth that Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler (see front cover) reached Tientsin, last week, commanding 1,800 U. S. marines previously stationed at Shanghai. He knew that the Southern Nationalist Chinese armies were steadily advancing on Peking (TIME, March 28 et seq.); but whether "Boxer"-trouble was brewing again he could not be certain. From Washington, President Calvin Coolidge ordered last week that no chances be taken, that the U. S. Legation and all U. S. citizens be removed to the port of Tientsin from inland Peking, should that city be seriously...
They will then proceed to Germany where a twenty-one day conference will be held with leaders of the German Youth Movement at their headquarters in the castle of Franconia and at the University of Holdelberg...