Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slight, intensely serious, towheaded youth of 22, Johnny Goodman of Omaha felt he should have been picked for the Walker Cup team. Sports writers thought he had been omitted because he once worked in a sporting-goods store. He entered the tournament with a grudge to settle. Without fanfare he polished off Walker Cupsters Seaver and McCarthy. In the semi-finals he drew Walker Cup Captain Ouimet. Francis Ouimet, now 39, had been ill before the championship, had played hard golf to get into the semifinals, and for the first 18 holes of his match, he out-golfed Johnny Goodman...
...Frame is still spoken of respectfully by bumptious younger critics. Though she has lived in France since 1906, her books have been stanchly U. S. products, except for a pro-French interlude during the War. By her juniors she is rated respectfully as an old lady writer of surprising youth, surprising up-to-date notions. Among her many books: The House of Mirth, Old New York, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, Twilight Sleep, Hudson River Bracketed...
Today a motley, apprehensive horde of youth will undergo their fiery baptism of registration. The prevailing atmosphere of bewildered anxiety insures the experienced a profitable hunting; but with calm evening and the Yard emerges a sense of reassurance. Their names have been recognized, they have received confusingly minute instructions, and the first term bill is already due; there is the essence. Within a few short weeks the transition will be complete. As individuals they will have graduated to Freshman agnosticism and crew cuts, to indifference and gabardine; there is the effect. They are Harvard...
...Russia which is facing her worst food shortage since the Famine Year 1921. Scarcely any of the young Communists who heard him possess or will possess a necktie for years to come, let alone a business suit. For that reason they cheered wildly his new directive to the Communist Youth movement: "We are not against love! We are not against flowers! We are not ascetics and we do not preach asceticism. We are for a full and many-sided life?a life rich in experiences...
Between the University of Southern California and the family of famed Oilman Edward Laurence ("Teapot Dome") Doheny there has been close financial and sentimental association. Busy prospecting for gold in his youth, Oilman Doheny had no time to go beyond high school. But his son Edward Laurence Jr. ("Ned") went to U. S. C., was graduated in 1916. After serving as lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he became a member of the University alumni council, later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great...