Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward of Wales addressed an agricultural fair at Yeovil, England. "Fellow farmers. . . . The youth now takes to the roads on Sundays, and a couple of cutlets for father and mother are substituted for a whole joint of beef at the Sunday meal...
...Muralist Orozco summoned his assistant, Master Plasterer Juan Jorge Crespo, and went to work. They produced a fresco in vibrant Mexican color entitled "Man Released from the Mechanistic." It showed a mass of broken machinery-cannon, gears, buzzsaws, bayonets and distilling worms-out of which is arising a naked youth with a cauliflower ear and a bright shoe-button eye, who seems to be violently clapping his hands...
...wilderness who built a better mouse trap than his fellows. So they trooped to the haunts of the Vagabond and lay "upon the hills like Gods together careless of mankind." They were Harvard men; one of the Old Guard of '95, one of '28, a youth who was learning to stroke his lip thatch and was cutting his first History One lecture, and the Vagabond...
Knowing your interest in American youth, I am wondering if you would suggest about 30 pictures of high moral tone and alive with romance adventure and historical worth. Your suggestions will aid considerably in wisely selecting the pictures for this fine group of boys this summer...
...showered money on educational machinery to bring about a millennium. This has failed miserably; typical products of the methods in use are the Philistines, the Babbitts, who cramp all progress by their unthinking complacency. A further indictment of the public school system is evident in the predominance of youth among the criminals and gangsters. Warden Lawes has recently stated that in the last few years he has often looked at his prisoners and wondered whether he is running a penitentiary or a preparatory school. The notable absence of culture in the ranks of successful business men and the number...