Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serious political news. Mrs. Roosevelt drove Invalid Howe from the White House to the Naval Hospital while the President returned to his work, appointed Raymond Bartlett Stevens of New Hampshire, one-time adviser to the Siamese Government, a member of the Tariff Commission; addressed the State directors of National Youth Administration; wrote Senator Harrison asking him during the autumn to see if anything could be done about reviving NRA; appointed the new Social Security and Labor Relations Boards...
Freshman class elections, dances, and the year-book are backed by the Student Council. Through Phillips Brooks House, donations are made on behalf of the student body to various non-college charities. P. B. H. itself does considerable work in settlement houses and youth organizations by means of its share of the Student Council budget...
Harvard's Tercentenary Class--the 300th since the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony deemed it wise to hand down their learning to the youth--will pass in a long parade through the historic portals of Memorial Hall, on Friday, September 20, as approximately 1050 entering Freshmen register for the opening of their four years of "higher education...
...Socialist and Communist Press, admitted that he has now fired his people with exultant zeal for conquering Ethiopia, plus hopes of absorbing Austria as a later move to ''restore the Universality of Rome!" In the general rush to enlist now sweeping Italy's languid, aristocratic youth even the Dictator's baby-faced son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, last week planned to quit his peculiarly vital desk-job as Minister of Press & Propaganda to become a flying...
...Hollywood's leading stars, Katharine Hepburn is possibly the least versatile. It is precisely this limitation which made her the ideal choice for the role of Alice. The woebegone grimaces, the expressions, half childish and half addle-headed, which she uses to convey youth's nameless longings and which are often so startlingly misplaced in her portrayals of women of the world, are those which make her portrayal of a girl whom she really understands her masterpiece to date. The supremely difficult feat of characterizing a poseuse so as to mock the poses without mocking the person behind...