Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mandamus to force Governor Miller to set a day for the voting. The State Sen ate rallied to the Governor and, in special session a fortnight ago, rushed through both houses an amendment to the election laws to allow for Joe O'Mahoney's appointment. In his youth Joe O'Mahoney knew oysters better than he knew horses. Born in Chelsea, Mass, he did not even see a cattle-ranch until at 24 he went to Boulder, Colo. He had worked for the Cambridge Democrat, had graduated from Columbia. At Boulder he became city editor...
...Valera lost a trick last week to his Fascist foe blue-shirted General Owen O'Duffy. Last fortnight de Valera men stopped the blue-shirted General on his way to address a County Mayo meeting of the blue-shirted party he had just renamed the "League of Youth" after the President banned it as the Young Ireland Association...
...Epsom Downs, the new track near Houston, Tex., last week little Jack Westrope booted in winners 297, 298, 299. Then he mounted a chestnut filly named Miss Tulsa. Another horse named Fortunate Youth forced her wide at the turn, forged ahead. Jockey Westrope lifted Miss Tulsa into the lead again, but she was spent, finished fourth. Next day the Epsom Downs stewards suspended Westrope for five days for rough riding. That left him three racing days in which to score his 300th victory...
...Yeats. Only Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Poet Yeats is Erin's uncrowned laureate as well as its most respected living writer. But even poets grow old. Though these latest poems may well seem more satisfactory to him than the wilder mystical verse of his youth, only devoted friends and a few new admirers will follow him up his winding stair. Now he writes Words for Music Perhaps. In the old days he certainly would have given the music too. But Yeats, too subtle an artist to have lost all his cunning, can still write memorable...
Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain, reviewed in this issue...