Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England, Adolf Hitler had no warmer sponsor than his friend Lord Rothermere. Five years ago the Rothermere Daily Mail hailed "the rebirth of Germany as a nation." Home from a visit to Munich, Rothermere exulted: "Under Herr Hitler's control the youth of Germany will be effectively organized against the corruption of Communism." More than a year ago he took up with Sir Oswald Mosley, vigorously pushed the Mosley "British Union of Fascists." Then came last June's Blood Purge in Germany, the instant revulsion of British sentiment against Naziism. Chuckleheaded Rothermere dropped Blackshirt Mosley like...
...them he had kept closely in touch with the everyday people who make up audiences. Johnson is a golfer, a Mason, a Rotarian. He has remained as unpretentious as his townsfolk in Guelph, Ontario, who now prize his portrait in Guelph Town Hall but who once wondered at a youth so incalculable that he would turn his back on the ministry and the law, set out on his own for Manhattan...
...murmur that men are afraid to teach, driven away from the student by the intense pressure to produce tangible results from the laboratory. This pressure arises from the official belief that instructors will be intellectually dead at forty if they cannot drink deep of the fountain of perpetual youth that flows in the laboratory and the stacks. With some instructors this is true. But as a substitute for an intelligent personal estimate of each individual by his fellow workers, this principle can only end in failure. Four out of five men in every sciences department will testify to the truth...
...even the staunchest opponent of communism would say that John Reed failed to fulfil these simple requirements. Like his classmate. Senator Cutting, whose career was out short a fortnight ago by an airplane accident, Reed died with the ardor of youth still burning in him. To many a contemporary, grown cautious and disillusioned, his memory will recall great days, rich in hope and expectancy. --Boston Herald. Wednesday...
Richly illustrated with old photographs, the book contains one of a strikingly handsome youth seated at the controls of an early (1913) Wright pusher. The young man was Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, son of a wealthy Philadelphia brewer. Popular as an amateur automobile racer and pioneer sportsman pilot, Early Bird Bergdoll was to become notorious four years later as the No. 1 U. S. draft-dodger during the War. Grover Cleveland Loening says Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's reason for evading the draft was that he was refused a commission in the U. S. Air Service...