Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tiger's head. But all proper Scouts in the Jamboree used the distinctive salute* of Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were 800 members of the Mussolini Balilla (substitute for Italy's suppressed Boy Scouts) and 60 Hitler Youth Boys. When Nazis suppressed the German Boy Scouts last June, B.P. exclaimed: "I am very glad! The German Boy Scouts were not attached to us. They were military. We are unmilitary and unpolitical-just Boy Scouts and nothing more!" Last week Lord Baden-Powell, referring to the defunct World Monetary...
...Youth is Fascismo's stock in trade. The party anthem, "Giovinezza" is all about "Youth, youth, springtime of beauty...
Pierre Hamp, proletarian (as opposed to propagandist) author, has had a queer and difficult apprenticeship in his profession. In Kitchen Prelude, the story of his youth, he tells what it was like to be a pastry-cook's helper in Paris, a chef's assistant behind such glittering faqades as Marguery's Restaurant and London's Savoy Hotel...
Every Summer School has its famous characters. Among the most outstanding features in feminine reflections at the Union we find a stalwart youth with ebony mane popularly known as the Answer to a Maiden's Prayer. But the most vigorous attention and well-meaning conjecturers have produced no real results. Our unnoticing hero has formed no feminine attachment to allay the disquieting fears of our fascinated schoolmarms, and we are beginning to question whether there really existed a maiden's prayer, or whether the answer was short circuited. Here at least is a case where wire-tapping would...
...expression was usually concealed where he could watch and hear all that transpired, not on the stage, but in the orchestra pit, where his father played a viola. The father was a Belgian. The son, Leon Barzin, had been brought up in New Orleans but the rest of his youth was to be spent in Manhattan where, by the age of 20, he had achieved a second violinist's chair in the Philharmonic. In 1925 he became first violinist...