Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feelings upon the state of the nation, here is to be an in watching the views as they are thrashed out with the pen. If for nothing else, this new stand of the Critic will have merit for its position as a chronicle for the varying thoughts of the youth of today...
...which so far has seemed impossible. The best that the Republican Party can do today is to keep its form of organization and act with intelligence. However, if it retains its present characteristics, it must justly give way to a third party which will represent the vigorous opposition of youth and intelligence...
...apparently the legal geniuses that burn in Langdell prefer to offer their ideas to the government, perhaps in an effort to bring some order out of the chaos that rules our life. Sad Indeed is it to see our youth of today go without the teachings of the great, but, oh, perhaps it is more valuable for the masters to attempt to teach their findings to those who feel that brains, as such, can run a government...
...Fascist Militia moved to immortalize a young militiaman named Di Valero as its idea of a certified peacetime hero. In a competitive mountain-climbing hike he scrambled so far, so fast and so high that at last his nearest competitor gave up in exhaustion. Di Valero, emulating the "youth who bore 'mid snow and ice a banner with the strange device Excelsior!" kept climbing until finally he fainted and died of heart failure. This exploit, according to the editor of Milizia Fascista last week, typifies the "will to win" so lacking in pre-Fascist Italians. "The heroism...
...party, but his writing is astutely stoat-like. His father is chairman of Chapman & Hall, London publishing firm. Evelyn went to Oxford, then followed his older brother into authorship. At Oxford he read history, dabbled in art. Alec Waugh had made a precocious splash with The Loom of Youth (1917); Evelyn obliterated the ripples with Decline & Fall. Now at 31, one of the smartest of London's smart young literary men, he has followed the fashion of his set by 1) getting a divorce. 2) joining the Roman Catholic Church. 3) traveling widely in unlikely places...