Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Menocal are Colonel Carlos Mendieta. highly esteemed but generally considered too old for the job; and former Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez of Havana, a genial politico. All these men are Hombres del '95 and the A. B. C. is heartily sick of its revolutionary ancestors. It is a youth movement, largely Fascist in ideas. It believes in breaking up the vast U. S. controlled plantations, establishing a real national currency, a national bank of issue, ending the Government lotteries and having compulsory military service to replace the swaggering professionals of the present Cuban army...
...years hence. Clifford Beers's sturdy diligence motivates them all. He is a tall, swarthy. hazel-eyed, healthy, witty man of 57 who works & works, talks & talks insistently for Mental Hygiene. For 21 years there has been a Mrs. Beers whom he publicly extols as "friend of my youth who did believe in me and who encouraged me in my ambitions...
...stool pigeon. Defending him, Red arranges a light between Locket and Ringleader Wells behind the blacksmith shop. A guard intervenes. Locket hysterically brains him with an ax. There is a general jailbreak. Red and Locket hide in a nearby barn. A queer element of Tom Sawyerism develops as the youthful criminals plan to make a raft. "We could float all the way down the Mississippi," says Locket. "Hell," says Red. "We could float all the way to California!" But they float nowhere. Frightened farm boys shoot Locket. Red is brought back to the institution, prepared for transfer to the penitentiary...
...apathetic to political problems, reform was supreme idealism. As in the case of New York, every one knew Tammany was the wayward child, but there were always favors of the business man so no change could be demanded. Now the wayward child has grown to a big, big, burly youth. This machine bureaucracy of Tammany has proved vulnerable in only one spot, the financial spot, and if any control can be exercised it will be through this avenue...
...ventures to place an original construction on Dean Hanford's affidavit in re the evil of tutoring bureaus. If, however, temerity be not forbidden and the impressions of that temerity be not vain, one is tempted to suggest that the two humorous undergraduate publications look to their laurels. Youth has been quick to appraise and to emulate the form if not the substance of the diversion common to distraught journalists, hapless explorers, and brilliant financiers. To the hoax it has brought the charm of unflagging devotion and ingenuous extravaganza; but in maturity there remains ever that godlike leaven of simplicity...