Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could be represented in no better way than in the evening's meeting. He continued, "We have not been able to raise the average morals with increased wealth or with increased education. What is needed is an increase in religion. The hope of the world is always in the youth and as a result some social influence is needed to keep him from becoming too self centered. This influence should be a religion, not a purely intellectual one, but one which is deeper than that and one which does not break in a crisis...
When confronted with the question of whether he did not think that Harvard, the center for America's sophisticated youth, was hardly the place from which to choose the actors. Mr. Williams smiled and said, "No, the Harvard type is just what they want. With his perfectly impervious expression of indifference and his deep resouceful eye, the Crimson undergraduate is just the man for Hollywood...
...steadfastly-Saul the scourge, first of the law, then of the Lord; Saul invested always with the dignity of his Roman citizenship, yet humble enough to suffer fiercely, meanly, publicly for peace in his church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened...
...Yorkers, a revue presented last month (TIME, March 21) at the Edyth Totten Theatre, Manhattan, included a skit entitled "Bernarr Hires a Stenographer." Therein it was demonstrated how a youthful office attendant, apparently of the male sex, flits about in a bathing suit, making ready the desk of his potent employer who is to arrive presently for the purpose of hiring a stenographer. Enter a stage version of Bernarr, also in a one-piece bathing suit, with pronounced features. After setting-up exercises, he calls for the applicants to enter. As they file in, in scanty costume, each is measured...
...Each [husband and wife] should be unselfish and considerate of the other and both try to keep the optimism and cheerfulness of their youth ... he ought to realize that a wife is a partner...