Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan theatre. In the narrow space between the Men's Room and the Ladies' Room are packed a half-dozen plots and subplots. There is the harassed man whose wife is having a baby, the callow collegian who gets caught lying to his sweetheart, the burly youth who finds it embarrassing to have just married a scrawny dowager, the bewildered old couple from the country. There is, too, the graciously unfaithful wife (Ilka Chase) who discovers that her lover is a cad. An earnest coatroom attendant, who has got mixed up with one of the girl ushers, steals...
...Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler: In respect to manners and personal conduct, present-day habits . . . are quite shocking. One wonders why it is that youth can come to full adolescent years with no apparent appreciation of the difference between good manners and their opposite. Manners are manifested through speech, through dress, through personal bearing and through respect for the personality and the opinions of others...
...Theodore Roosevelt reading "You have one more minute," that speaker swept it aside and talked for three more about "worthwhile work." There was a session on "Changing Standards in the Arts," with contributions from Will Irwin, Hugh Walpole, Pearl Buck, Lawrence Tibbett, Harvey Wiley Corbett, a session on Youth, a session on "The Struggle for Security." But best of all, to many and many a woman in the audience, was a session on "The Changing Status of Women...
...poor but exceptionally gifted Persian youth, Omar Khayyam was with the Turkish army that routed the Emperor of Constantinople at Malasgird, saw his best friend killed there. Later as a student of mathematics he made such a reputation that the Sultan made him his astronomer. In his crude observatory Omar revamped the calendar, indulged in heretical speculations about the nature of the universe, tossed off unconsidered little rubai (quatrains) when he felt off his feed. A tragic love affair turned him from an ambitious scientist into a world-weary philosopher. Riches and power were heaped on him by the Sultan...
...ascent, he stood confident before the offending door ready to bring the swift justice of the law to the unsuspecting voice within Flinging open the door he stood mightily on the threshold and gazed bewildered upon the scene that lay unfolded... There before him stood a stocky and amazed youth interrupted in the midst of rehearsing his part for a female role in the Kirkland House play. Chagrined and defeated the guardian of the fair name of Harvard sought the protective cover of the night...