Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only never declared anything of the kind as to Denver High School girls but any declarations of mine as to such girls or youth generally have been quite the contrary. I have said over and over again that "the youth of today are the wisest, the most hopeful and the most moral that the world ever saw." . . . My difficulties in Denver, as is well known (see The Dangerous Life, published by Horace Liveright- 1931, for all details) were due to my rights against the bigotry of the Ku Klux Klan when it rose to power there...
...Gosh." Clyde Allen Lee, 24, a lank youth of Oshkosh, Wis., solicited a few hundred dollars from local merchants to help him fly his Stinson monoplane, with Oshkosh B'Gosh painted on its fuselage, nonstop to Oslo, Norway. The scheme fell through. Pilot Lee flew east, got natives of Montpelier and Barre, Vt., to pay to have Oshkosh B'Gosh erased and Green Mountain Boy painted instead. He picked up a mechanic named John Bochkon, a towheaded Norwegian who used to be known as "The Swede" when he was a night watchman at Curtiss-Wright Airport...
...Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch between youth and middle age," was Mrs. Emma Vogt Ives, Vogue's associate fashion editor, sister of Actor Louis Calhern, in a square-crowned flat sailor with quill. A rakish felt sailor for debutantes was worn by beauteous Miss Rion Fortescue of Washington, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, principal...
...known to have talked of suicide often. Then gossipy newshawks began to arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust and sectional suspicion...
...Brooklyn hulking Deputy Sheriff Vincent Glynn, nephew of Alfred Enianuel Smith, was charged with homicide after he shot & killed a jobless youth on whom he was trying to serve a warrant for nonsupport. His story: that the youth hit him and ran. Few years ago Glynn was a city policeman, was involved in a hit-&-run driving case, quit the force following a shooting scrape in a speakeasy...