Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mussolini. The editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
...wish that the managers of the Harvard Advertising Awards would offer a booby prize and certificate, so that I might nominate for this distinction Boni & Liveright's advertisement of The Revolt of Youth in TIME...
...secret. Taking 100 girls to sea with 400 boys had not been eminently successful, for three reasons which the Associated Press adroitly paraphrased for Editor Allen: "1) The presence of companionable young women distracted the young men from their studies to a disturbing extent. 2) Contiguity of youth of both sexes started many courtships of varying degrees of intensity. 3) Residents in foreign ports at which the ship touched, not having reached the American ideas of the emancipation of women, misinterpreted the meaning of the venture, with resultant complications...
...gutter types right after it has been worshiped by refined slaves, suggests degeneracy to most of her critics. The impassive Gubbio thinks not. He can understand it is her subtle revenge upon men who desire only that part of her which she scorns. Her revenge upon Giorgio, a pure youth, an artist, had to be yet more subtle because the injury he did her was worse than the others. He enjoyed only her body and that only esthetically, for his art, on his canvas. So she seduced him, promised him, denied, then betrayed...
...fate has endowed me with the combined gifts of practical qualities on the one hand, and appreciation of spiritual things, love of beauty and sympathy with my fellow beings on the other. Life is as vivid to me, the great adventure of living as thrilling, as in my early youth...