Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politically, Premier Vaida-Voevod of Rumania is no friend of M. Titulescu. "I studied medicine in my youth at Vienna," he admitted diffidently. "I never practiced. Still, do you want me to see what...
...articles that appeared in London told of the situation in pre-Revolutionary Russia and described the tactics of Kerensky who was his friend and intimate. These caught the eye of Lloyd George, then Prime Minister. Although appalled with the youth of Lockhart, the head of the British government decided to send him to affect a contact with Lenin and Trotsky in non-official capacity. One also finds a pleasing irony in the pictures of God-fearing Arthur Henderson, Lord Robert Cecil thinking that Trotsky was a German officer in disguise, and a dozen others...
...Vickers was a tomboy, a bossy little girl who, like many another, never quite got over her youth. In spite of temptations she refused to fritter away her seriousness in the usual boy-&-girl business in her small-town set. She went to a small Eastern college, splashed seriously, busily, happily as its Biggest Frog. There she was tempted from her narrow way by a liberal-minded professor, who tried to seduce her but succeeded only in destroying her orthodox faith. After graduation Ann rolled up her sleeves, got into the woman-suffrage fight. From that point...
...Voice of the Younger Generation," Modern Youth is less articulate than its editor, pretty Viola Ilma, 22, less remarkable than the story she tells of herself: She is the granddaughter of a Swiss Quaker missionary and an Abyssinian princess. Her father calls himself Prince Ali Youssuf Ilma, played character parts on the Manhattan stage. Six years ago Miss Ilma won a $10,000 prize from Liberty for an article. "The Aim of the Modern High School Girl." Liberty last week said it had no record of that award. But Editrix Ilma's story continues: She went around the world...
...Modern Youth promises to "record somewhat accurate photographic impressions of life from those whose films are particularly fresh . . . offer many a glimpse of life as it shall be." Contents are limited to the works of authors under...