Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amateur Press Association of America. Although the NAPA had been formed 19 years before, the group of boys who organized the United Amateur Press Association knew nothing of its existence. At that time the National had become a staid and conservative body, with adults, well past the period of youth, predominating. In strict contrast was the United, whose founder, William H. Greenfield, was only 15 years of age at the time. . . . The UAPAA has a much larger membership than the NAPA, and even with dues half as much, they have come through the year with a balance of $50 instead...
...Entirely fallacious," said he, "is the popular conception of the average college student as a gin-drinking, jazz-crazy, sex-feverish iconoclast with communistic leanings who scoffs at the ideas of an older generation. . . . Repeal apparently has had a sobering effect on youth. The jazz age is definitely gone...
William Henry Aspinwall's sister, Mary Rebecca, married Isaac Roosevelt, the President's grandfather. Great-Uncle William passed a youth "of moral purity" in a "refined and Christian' home in Bleeker Street," according to his Staten Island minister upon the occasion of Mr. Aspinwall's death in 1875. Aged 25, he was taken into partnership in the mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into...
...contactman in Germany, he revealed, was his son James Wideman Lee II. Princeton, 1929, recalls "Jim" Lee as a tall, personable youth who helped edit the Daily Princetonian. Now 28, he is paid $33,000 a year for handing his father's counsel and significant U. S. newspaper clippings to I. G. Farbenindustrie, which hands them on to the German Government...
Near Fouke, Ark., at a Pentecostal meeting, a farmer boy slashed an artery in his companion's arm. Worshippers formed a circle around the wounded youth, prayed fervently for an hour, watched his blood flow unchecked until he was dead...