Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expert psychological opinion on the influence of the cinema upon minors. The Council's executive director, the Rev. William Harrison Short, got $200,000 from the Payne Fund and started hiring expert researchers. Last year the Council published its findings in a series called Motion Pictures and Youth (Macmillan), of which the 7th fat black volume appeared in November. This winter the M. P. R. C. has been getting ready for the second phase of its program-to persuade or compel the cinema industry to produce better (i. e. more moral) pictures. First step was to acquire active officers...
...these knew what the Occidental Press had not bothered to find out. Behind the youth who is now Emperor of Annam, docile Vinh Tuy, whose reign is known as Bao Dai. is a dynasty scarcely 150 years old. The preceding dynasty was a figurehead for two powerful families. One of these was the family of Nguyen. With the aid of a French bishop...
...mother of his six dusky half-brothers and half-sisters, that the uncle with whom Chostor goes to live is tattooed all over his body and married to a syphilitic harlot who haggles with her husband nightly over the price he must pay to sleep with her, that the youth marries the illegitimate daughter of a tattoo artist who destroys their connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband's left breast--these delightful details are merely the sauce of morbidity and unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity...
...Emperor." If Otto should be restored it would bring certain definite advantages to Austria. The minor squabblings of Heimwehr, Christian Socialists, and Dollfuss Front members would end once they had a common figure to rally round. There would be a new, possibly a more glamorous figure to draw impressionable youth from Adolf Hitler. The pomp and ceremony of a Habsburg court, always the stiffest in Europe, would be a drawing card for Austria's languishing tourist trade. It would bring Austria the not inconsiderable backing of the Vatican. On the other hand, the restoration of Otto in Austria...
...first dismiss from this discussion as ridiculous the idea of any student youth movement, striding over this country in brown shirts or purple pants. Let me at the same time make clear the fact that not being too familiar with the reasons which drive students into the radical ranks, I cannot argue their case except to say that I understand why certain of them, as Lincoln Steffens shows us, become agitators in the hope that their efforts will help to break down a system which is fundamentally responsible for all our ills, political, social, and economic...