Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekend had rounded up 793 dope dealers and addicts, proposed special wards in county sanatoriums to cure criminal and noncriminal drug addicts. Miss Dorothy Frooks of Peekskill, N. Y., denounced the exploitation of ball games and cinemas in penitentiaries lest "the prisons hold out a welcoming hand to the youth of the nation." Republican Hurley: "Such work as the extermination of crime should not be partisan." Republican Stimson: "It is not unnatural for the boys of a country which has recently lost its frontier to be excited and stimulated by tales of danger and thrilling adventure. But it is certainly...
...youth should take control of the home front and their elders should take the danger posts. Science has made war a much more suitable occupation for middle-aged people than it was in 1914. It would not be a bad thing if men were called to the colors at the age of 40, not before...
...addition to lending vigorous support towards this measure, the Harvard chapter of the Student League will send a delegate to a National conference of the League at St. Louis on Wednesday, and it will also be represented at the International Youth Conference at Brussels on Saturday, December 29, and Sunday, December...
...antics. Many were resentful when he arrogantly scolded them for applauding, arriving late or failing to appreciate some ultra-modern screeching. But Stokowski was not out for publicity when he made his peerless transcriptions of Bach. For years he presented them anonymously. He took infinite pains with the Youth Concerts and gave his services. No one was surprised when he received the first Philadelphia Award (a medal and $10,000), for outstanding civic service...
...action of the play takes place in the country home of Lady Wyngate, a short distance from London. Gathered there for the proverbial stage week-end are Rand Eldridge, noted Antarctic explorer and young lover of his hostess, his brother Hobart, an American capitalist interested in organizing Fascist youth movements, his doll-like wife, Phoebe, her daughter Joan, and her flance, Clendon Wyatt, a Rhodes scholar. Huge Willens, a German music critic, recently released from a concentration camp for having a Jewish great-grandmother, and Nikolai Jurin, a Russian emigre...