Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every lexicon but youth's is bright enough to include such words as "fail," but not every dictionary is first-rate. The appearance of a first-rate dictionary is a newsworthy event in literary history. Since Nathan Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum (1721), these events can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand.* Though every dictionary is more of a Who's Who of words than a supreme court of language, it is the ambition of every lexicographer to be the final arbiter. Generally acknowledged by scholars to be the nearest approach so far to supreme...
...present, and until the advent of further funds, it is proposed merely to publish two typewritten reports of House activities, one to be placed permanently on file in the library. This is by no means an ambitious undertaking, and will probably serve only as an interesting comment on the youth of Lowell for the inquisitive of future generations...
...prelude of obvious examples to the more subtle English "youthy" movement. This consists of a lot of by-election talk about new men to take the place of the old (the average man in Mr. MacDonald's Government is sixty-three years of age). What has happened to youth? Where are the Gladstones of a hundred years ago? What is the matter with the Oxford Union? some say all young men are under Flanders' Field; but in reality, according to Mr. Lewis, they have merely realised that politics is not a profitable business. This is not the case in America...
There is a musty, tropic shade to the atmosphere as the Vagabond deserts his tower. For the first time in years he realizes his own fine youth and strength. His steely frame carries him down the streets in a series of mad gyrations, leaps, and striving. Gradually the objects he meets merge in a slurred monotone of grey, with occasional bursts of color. He is going faster, faster, faster. Faces loom up; they speak, but he hears them not, for he is imbued with the essence of spring. Swirling down out of his course to a peaceful rigidity, he buries...
Though normal youth may here be found...