Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moppets-stimulated by Chicago's Columbian Exposition and promotional propaganda of the Youth's Companion-first chanted these immortal words on the first official Columbus Day, in 1892. For over 40 years, however, there has been no certainty who wrote them...
...than mere teaching of English or Economics. His objective is the attempt to clear up a national problem--the widening gap between high school and employment. Vividly apparent from the swelling ranks of the C. C. C., the N. Y. A., and the W. P. A., the struggle of youth to find an opening in private industry is becoming more acute each year. Claiming that public education has failed to prepare its graduates for their place in life, the Gulick report to the New York Board of Regents last fall favored the establishment of an eight year secondary school...
...office of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became a millionaire banker...
...Time for Comedy Olivier is cast as the author of a drama about a youth who supposedly dies fighting for Leftist Spain. The boy's scientist father, comforted by "messages" from him, turns spiritualist. The boy turns up, unrecognizable because of face wounds, commits suicide rather than disillusion his father. In the play, the playwright ends by throwing this drama into the wastebasket. But Warner Bros, (discovered Leonard Lyons, unwearied whitewing of Manhattan's night spots) want to buy it for Paul Muni...
...changes shape in his dream: sometimes he is H. C. Earwicker, but sometimes he is Here Comes Everybody, or Haveth Childers Everywhere. Sometimes he is an old man, worried, half-sick, mixed up in vulgar and unpleasant affairs, sometimes his dreams spring back to his youth when he was, in Critic Wilson's words, "carefree, attractive, well-liked ... as dawn approaches, as he becomes dimly aware of the first light, the dream begins to brighten and to rise unencumbered...