Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moderator Davis, a leaflet of the Chicago Theological Seminary says: "A sturdy body, attached to Chippendale legs, and surmounted by a bulldog profile-that is your first impression of him. Afterward his twinkling eyes and gigantic laughter would attract you" He was born in Vermont; worked in his youth as a railroad telegrapher; preached, while his hair was yet red, at Newtonville, Mass., near Wellesley College and Boston; made the Chicago Seminary attractive to midwestern and southern divinity students. He is < years...
...lower half, of his journey, of apartment houses and the stadium: and lest the forget that he is still in urban surroundings he is reminded of the fact at least once by a small boy who wants to be taken for a ride; thus demonstrating the eternal optimism of youth, since it is doubtful if since the founding of the college such a request has been granted...
...King's youth perhaps the most intriguing "secret" is that during his long training as a Navy officer he became enamored of the daughter of a certain Admiral. The affair came to nothing; and it is notable that His Majesty has not given an ever willing public the opportunity to forgive a few royal indiscretions beneath the rose. In other respects the King and Emperor is a Navy man to his fingertips. Admiral Earl Beatty and a few other titled salts are among his closest friends...
...TRIUMPH OF YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Boy-witch in fanatical old Germany...
...freshmen competitors for the editorial board of the Princetonian (undergraduate daily). President Coolidge was speciously said to be reluctant to meet "a reporter from a college with Princeton's strong Democratic traditions." Proprietress Guinan was wary because Prohibition agents had once used the ruse of a college youth seeking an interview to hand her an injunction which padlocked one of her raucous night clubs...