Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialism when he heard Mr. Thomas lecture at the University of Kansas. Manager Senior's fondness for dancing shocks the older members of the party, called "glacial Socialists." Most of these veterans have been pushed into the back-ground at Chicago headquarters, by men around 30 recruited to rally Youth to Socialism. Ready for Nominee Thomas is a campaign itinerary which starts this month in New England, swings to the Pacific Coast and back to New York by way of the South...
...tale is of Kaoru and Niou, two princes of noble blood, and their affairs with Agemaki and Kozeri, Prince Hachi's lovely daughters. Kaoru is an exceptional youth with such a natural fragrance that even at a distance people can smell his "hundred-step scent." Niou, who carries no such natural musk, tries to emulate his friend by becoming an expert mixer of perfumes. But Niou's personal life, dedicated to endless amours, is not so savory. Kaoru. with heavenly leanings, leaves women and the court alone...
...written articles on child welfare for most women's magazines. (She has five children, long experience as a teacher.) Her literary style is swift, simple, containing few commas. Sample: "I have no patience with people who try to give children books which they consider suitable to the youthful mind. There was a time in my youth when books like the Elsie books and the Rollo books were part of all our libraries but I do not believe that they served any good purpose in our education. They certainly left no lasting impression...
...Berlin the spirit of Germany's younger generation gave Author Hergesheimer pause. From their severe, rather poverty-stricken lives "the customary optimism, the romantic confidence, of youth, were absent. . . ." Most characteristic humor of the town was "a faintly bitter but undisturbed acceptance, of all, all, the realities of existence." To make the realities of existence less onerous for some of them Author Hergesheimer did his best. He took supper at the Swedish Pavilion "with a girl I found swimming at the Freibad," treated her to wild strawberries, lake trout, caviar. He took her home, a 40-minute taxicab ride, left...
...missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation of his Juviking books in the U. S. has left a large market untapped: The Trough of the Wave sold 1,063, The Blind Man 556, The Big Wedding 372. Not discouraged, Publisher Knopf will wind up the saga with Youth, The Storm...