Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tycoon rich enough to take it over. Last week the Kahn heirs announced they had sold the place for an undisclosed nominal sum to the Sanitation Department of New York City. Where divas dazzled financiers, where 50-piece orchestras played all night for Long Island's gilded youth, now white-wings who spent their lives cleaning the streets of the metropolis, inspectors who fought its diseases, engineers who disposed of its sewage, will live in luxurious vacation and retirement. Cottages will be built for pensioners. Horn & Hardart will set up a cafeteria...
...Italian field-hands steal and stew German cats). Every German woman was urged to go out on the land, help gather in the crops. It was estimated that at least 500,000 women of 60 years or more are doing farm labor in the Reich. Members of the Hitler Youth movement were commanded to volunteer their services. By drafting students, women, aliens, Nazis, with every available laborer under arms or building fortifications east or west, still hoped to gather in their vitally necessary harvest...
...second floor found himself staring at a blank space on the wall. When he had passed by 20 minutes before it had been occupied by Antoine Watteau's L'lndifférent, a tiny (10¼ inches by 7⅞ inches) painting of a carefree youth in a rose colored cape and blue doublet...
...taking turns sitting on it [a pigeon's egg] in the hope that something might happen." In his office California's Hiram Johnson shouted to his secretary: "Get this chicken out of here. It's raising hell." Explanation: as a publicity stunt arranged by the National Youth Administration each Senator was sent a homing pigeon with instructions for releasing...
Princetonians know Jack Crocker, now 39, as a big, dark-haired, broad-browed man who looks like Napoleon in his youth, likes his exercise (squash and tennis), loves to argue, has a laugh like a small thunderclap, six children and a comely wife (née Mary Hallowell, sister of two famed Harvard athletes) who sometimes needs to remind him where he parked his car. An earnest student, a disciple of Humanist Paul Elmer More, Crocker is a practitioner of "muscular Christianity." In this he resembles old Dr. Peabody, who used to play games with his students...