Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perform. One mishap occurred: 15 Balinese, tipsy on mild wine and carrying a cremation tower, ran over him and his camera. His picture, the leisurely record of a six-month visit, is beautifully photographed and has the warm, informal authenticity that most travelogs lack. Good shot: a Balinese youth (Trego's valet, who refused to leave Bali for any salary) smiling slowly as he watches a dance...
...young fellows "Copey" could be crushing. Two years ago saucy Tom Prideaux, editor of the Yale Literary Magazine, went up to look at Harvard. He visited "Copey," who stared at him and said: "Young man, I trust you are not planning to write any sketches." To an impertinent youth who suggested a headline to describe a fire : "Hollis a Holo caust, Copey a Crisp," he countered, "Nonsense ! 'Copey Crisper Than Ever.' " Once Professor Copeland was nearly at a loss. It was discovered that an old Harvard rule permitted the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric & Oratory to keep...
...went to Princeton University between 1921 and 1925 has forgotten a hard-muscled youth who came down from Alaska with shaggy black hair, shy grey eyes, a fighter's chin, a wolfskin coat, a rich baritone voice and much musical talent. Robert M. ("Bob") Crawford entered Princeton with a little money he had earned as a surveyor in Alaska. He worked his way in a bicycle shop and a Ford service station. He led the University Orchestra. He became president of the Glee Club. He composed for and sang in the Triangle Club's shows, including The Scarlet...
Legend says that once a youth of the Snake Clan, one Tiyo, forbidden to marry a clanswoman he loved, went away to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and plunged into the rushing water. He was swept into the underground realm of the immortal Snake people. He fell in love with one of their women, but when he embraced her, she and all the underground Snake people turned into real snakes. This did not dismay valiant Tiyo; so the snakes became people again and Tiyo took his bride back to his tribe on the mesa. But all of their offspring...
Died. John Albert Macy, 55, critic and author (The Spirit of American Literature, The Story of the World's Literature, The Critical Game), onetime (1901-09) associate editor of Youth's Companion, onetime (1922-23) literary editor of The Nation; of a heart attack; in Stroudsburg...