Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine arts or painting, thank goodness!" A member of the Sanity in Art Group, which considers "modernist" a synonym for "lousy," Artist Nichols is belligerent in refusing to "pick out the ugly things-strikes, droughts, ugly alleys and paint them." Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes...
Count Csaky said nothing. Tension grew in Hungary as Nazis protested against the arrest of 21 Nazi youth leaders...
Died. Leonard Merrick, 75, novelists' novelist, whose whimsically unhappy stories (When Love Flies Out o' the Window, Cynthia, Conrad in Quest of His Youth) were cold-shouldered by his British reading public, tolerated in the U. S.; in London. He usually wrote about people of his own stamp: sensitive, unsuccessful, unembittered, garret-inhabiting. In 1918, after he had published twelve novels, a dozen top-flight authors-including Barrie, Wells, Chesterton, Howells, Pinero, Hewlett-published an appreciative edition of his work, called public attention...
Since Italian Fascism is the personification of youth and Benito Mussolini is the embodiment of Fascism, one of the embarrassments of Italy today is that Il Duce is growing old. Last week Dictator Mussolini was 56, but unlike his German comrade, Adolf Hitler, whose birthdays are celebrated with more splendor each year, Il Duce preferred not to have his mentioned...
...young people were Jocists, members of a Belgian-born youth movement, Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (Christian Working Youth), which militantly aims to Christianize the ranks of labor (TIME, Sept. 26). For eight years Jocism's most vigorous leader in Canada has been Father Roy, 40, a onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought...