Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Gogarty is a doctor by trade (throat specialist). Now an Irish Senator, he was a bitter enemy of the Republicans, once faced a firing squad but escaped by swimming the Liffey. In gratitude he presented the river with a brace of swans. A mighty tosspot in his youth, he made a pilgrimage to the top of Featherbed Mountain to restore the snakes to Ireland. When he and Joyce shared a Martello tower near Dublin (Ulysses' opening scene), they protested to the British Admiralty about a warship that interfered with their view, had the ship removed...
John Masefield. Poet Laureate of England, has developed into such a gently archaic poet that readers of his laureations are apt to forget his hard, seafaring youth. But Masefield himself has not forgotten; ships have always been his lights-o'-love, and in The Bird of Dawning he returns to them with his old youthful fervor. This tale of clipper ships of the China sea trade, just before the days when steam swept sail from the seas, would make a young man's reputation, should shore up old Poet Masefield's against the seeping criticisms of sentimental...
...There is no Youth in American today," said Steffens, "and no undergraduate feeling. There is no burning curiosity, no searching interest in political and economic problems. At Harvard, liberalism is a stronger tradition than at any other American college. Yet the students don't take advantage on the opportunities this tradition affords them. The college man prefers to sit in his room and think and talk; instead of going out and seeing things as they really are, and putting his ideas to work in the practical laboratories of life...
...Professor of Medieval & Modern Greek at the University of Munich; an uncle is a Manhattan braid manufacturer. He has visited the U. S. twice, went home the first time by way of Japan. On one of his visits a Columbia physicist complimented him gracefully on the contrast between his youth and his achievements. Replied Dr. Heisenberg: "You know what they call the new physics in Germany? They call it the 'Boy Physics.' " Werner Heisenberg at 21 had distinguished himself by studies on the Zeeman effect (splitting of spectrum lines when light comes from an electromagnetic field). Independently...
...BEGINNING OF A MORTAL-Max Miller-Dutton ($2.50). The author of a book about his job (I Cover the Waterfront ) now writes a book about his youth...