Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office with a couple of items he insists are not apocryphal. He says Boston remains firmly the same. Cars are still "stood" there, not parked, for instance. He tramped for half an hour around Cambridge trying to find the Commander Hotel. Defeated by tricky diagonals, he appealed to a youth in flannels for directions. The latter replied in the best of Harvard. "First you turn left," he said, "then two right, then--" Here the young man paused, broke down. "I'm sorry," he said. "I'm afraid I can't help you. I'd have to point." The New Yorker...
...lobbyist at Springfield, 111. He still lives there in a two-story stucco house on a corner lot, with a private telephone number, a Chevrolet in the garage. In 1908 old Sam Gompers visited Springfield, spotted Lobbyist Lewis as a likely youth to serve the American Federation of Labor. After six years of chores for Gompers John Lewis attended his first A. F. of L. convention, mixed with the leaders, learned the tricks of Labor politics. After the War a U. M. W. shuffle resulted in the appointment of Lewis as vice president. When the regular president had a nervous...
...stuffy chamber of Germany's Supreme Court last week a dullwitted, loose-lipped Dutch youth with wild hair and shabby clothes sat laughing and laughing. There he was, Marinus van der Lubbe, propped up before Germany and the world as one of five defendants in a great Nazi anti-Communist propaganda trial, charged with setting fire to Berlin's Reichstag building last winter. All Germany was prepared to believe him guilty. Yet in London fortnight ago a committee of international jurists had held an unofficial trial of the same case, produced important witnesses, listened to reams of testimony...
...138th annual opening exercises not only his students and faculty but also Union's trustees, janitors, stenographers, secretaries, groundsmen, dormitory matrons, charladies, cooks and dishwashers. He informed them that they were all "agencies for the accomplishment of Union's distinctive aim, the intellectual advancement of youth...
HOMECOMING-Floyd Dell-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Generations push each other too fast to allow youth to grow old gracefully or without hurting somebody's feelings. Some 20 years ago-a mere wink of time -Floyd Dell was a promising young writer, one of the literary Lochinvars who came out of the West to startle Chicago and Greenwich Village into a romantic revival. When he wrote Moon-Calf (1920), an autobiographical novel, thousands of adolescent readers found him excitingly like themselves. Sometime practicer of "free love," an editor of the old Masses, a pillar of the Provincetown Players, Floyd Dell...