Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Number One. Murray ("Hump") Humphries, said to have grown handsome since the days of his callow youth when police used to take snapshots of him for their rogues galleries (see cut). Unlike his imprisoned onetime chief, Al Capone, he shuns the public eye. He is about 34, athletic, has brains. He is credited with having persuaded Capone to enter the cleaning & dyeing racket, headed that department of the Capone industries. He is now board chairman of whatever is left of the Capone syndicate. Public Enemy Humphries claims to be legitimately interested in the cleaning business, chuckles at police...
Integrally a part of Sadao Araki's whole life pattern has been the evolution of Japan's imperial scheme. As a youth, desperately poor but proud of his Samurai (knightly) lineage, he gloried in modern Japan's first and decisive war with China which ended (when he was 18) in the ceding by China to Japan of Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and Southern Manchuria including Port Arthur. When Germany, France and Russia forced Japan to disgorge all her spoils except Formosa and the Pescadores, the young Samurai's blood boiled with rage and shame...
...goings. Tatler, "society" gossipsheet, followed its old contemporary Town Topics into oblivion. An obscure magazine named Short Shorts quit. The Catholic Boy, first publication of its kind in the U. S., was started in St. Paul. Something called The Moment popped up in Brooklyn. And a loudly ballyhooed Modern Youth appeared...
...resignation of Alfred Ernest Stearns as headmaster of Andover, though scarcely unforeseen, will startle the large army of youth which has passed over Andover Hill in the last quarter century. For his appointment in 1903 was one of those rare and happy incidents of fate that places a man exactly where he belongs. The Puritanic austerity which was his guise and the intense human sympathy which was his self combined before youthful eyes to make inevitable that apotheosis which though often lonely, is necessary to the unity and order of a large secondary school...
...youth who won second place in the Baby R. O. G. class, Carl Goldberg, 20, of Purchase, N. Y., was regarded as the most important contender in the meet. Now a student at University of Wisconsin, Goldberg has been building and racing models in the U. S. meets for about five years, usually takes highest honors. Younger boys speak of him with awe. Officials laud his sportsmanship...