Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan the Caravan, youth section of the New History Society which is a pacifist offshoot of the Bahai religion, celebrated its sixth birthday with a ball at which was sung a new song called "No More War." Chorus...
Eliot, newest, biggest, "snootiest" of the Houses, draws the same type of youth as Dunster, but is cut up into social cliques. Three years ago its Master, Professor Roger Bigelow ("Frisky") Merriman, showed such zeal in entertaining socially desirable freshmen that other House Masters complained that he was violating a tacit taboo against proselyting. Result was that the Dean's Office took over the job of assigning freshmen to Houses, switched squads of private school men away from Eliot and Dunster. With the social balance somewhat evened, the Masters last year got back with restrictions, the privilege of picking...
...when a child, was undoubtedly a girl. I am positive of that. Little by little the change took place, until the last stage which was most sudden and occurred during a thunderstorm. After the convulsion of a great clap of thunder, this person appeared to have become a manly youth. Superstitious people think there has been, an act of the Gods. I say it is for Science to decide...
...Mendieta seemed near the end of his rope but Cubans had forgotten that in his youth their President was famed for his violent temper and his willingness to fight with his fists, a practice always impressive to Latins. Abruptly last week the hard-pressed President declared a dictatorship far more absolute than anything of Tyrant Machado's. Most sacred of Cuban fetishes is the autonomy of Havana University but President Mendieta had the University seized by soldiers, who found vast stores of ammunition and a few stolen cars on the campus. He announced that all Government employes...
...that of a young boy. Observer-narrator is John, youngest member of a Virginia family whose blood is proud but queer. His grandfather is an eccentric lawyer. His dead father was a doctor who painted strange pictures. His Uncle Charlie has been a wildly attractive scapegrace from his youth up. As John grows into adolescence he becomes an increasingly sympathetic witness of Charlie's outrageous but somehow innocent goings-on. Charlie is married, and his wife has brought him a lovely old house and a good farm. Charlie does his duty by all of them but occasionally he will...