Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house where they suspect the manager has hidden the money, Puff and Slag find instead a small boy. They adopt him. Slag gets a job in the steel mill. Puff becomes a model hausfrau. They send the boy through school and college. The climax arrives when the youth, already a college football hero, wants to become a professional prizefighter. In a desperate attempt to dissuade him, Slag attacks his ward, wins his point by taking one more licking. Good shot: Slag, inarticulate when called upon to make a speech at the graduation exercises of the boy's school...
...days thousands of people had seen Spain's leading matadors perform. They included: Marcial Lalanda, long considered the best; Nicanor Villalta and Vincente Barrera, also oldtimers; Domingo Ortega, who in his second season is the most talked of matador in Spain; Jaime Noaín, another fast-rising youth; Luis Fuentes Bejarano, who is sometimes brave, sometimes funny...
...late autumn Manhattanites will be able to enter the world's biggest theatre, five stories high, spired by 26 stories of Radio-Keith-Orpheum enterprises. In the domed grand foyer they will be faced by Muralist Ezra Winter's 60-ft. canvas showing the Fountain of Youth planted by God on a mountaintop, ringed by chasms. This canvas will follow the sweep of a huge marble and bronze stairway. In the auditorium a gigantic sunburst will explode above the proscenium arch. Structural glass will be pocked with mosaics of cork, murals of linoleum. The wall coverings will...
...announced he would grant a recess while Juror Lomax traveled 50 mi. to Willow Glen on an important mission. Several hours later Juror Lomax returned, climbed wearily into the jury box, told interested colleagues that hereafter Willow Glen's schoolchildren could look at an innocuous poster of a youth and maiden in scanty one-piece bathing suits...
...both Southern Pacific and Union Pacific he fought savagely against Federal segregation. When defeated in 1913, he threw in his lot with Union Pacific. His only son, Robert Abercrombie, is a partner of Manhattan's Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. Died. Herbert Dickinson Ward, 71, author, onetime editor of Youth's Companion, (merged in 1929 with American Boy), onetime editor of the Boston Post; in Portsmouth...