Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crony of the Crown who, when in London, downs many a whiskey & soda with George V is handsome, aristocratic Admiral Sir David Murray Anderson. In his battling youth Sir David bombarded Afrikanders to Queen Victoria's taste, later commanded the royal steam yacht Victoria and Albert to King Edward's satisfaction, became personal aide-de-camp to King George and is now His Majesty's Governor of Newfoundland. One day last week both houses of the Newfoundland Parliament passed and sent to Sir David an historic resolution which compressed into a single rumbling, mealy-mouthed sentence...
...which he regrets, only too late, not to have exploited as an undergraduate, has been made to feel that his own world has vanished, that he is an outsider; that he is no longer wanted. And whatever pleasure he may try to derive that the wasteful frivolity of his youth can yet be assuaged through quiet, reflective reading in Widener's pastures, is slowly smothered in a red tape vaster than any he encountered in student days. But it is rather the privilege of participating again in the life of the university than participation itself which the alumnus would find...
...James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description of the awakening of youth, written in an impersonal vein by a man who does not attempt to analyze and explain each movement of the characters; he presents a vivid picture of his characters and allows the reader to draw all the inane conclusions...
...another named Jacqueline Rusling whose father keeps store in Bridgeport, and a dozen other youngsters between 15 and 18. Their stage job was to behave as they had behaved in real life the day before yesterday. They twittered on like starlings, discovering a sly pleasure in mocking their past youth. Their beauty, spontaneity and decorum charmed Manhattan audiences. The star of the proceedings was the author's beautiful, blonde, 17-year-old daughter Jean Rouverol...
Today O.M.W. Sprague returns to the Business School, where our youth is taught how to make more money from the family aspirin factory. The government's loss is hardly equalled by the business school's gain, for what many men could do along the Charles, very few are fitted to do in the early days of a new national administration...