Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Israel Gollancz at King's College. Married to a poet, poetically inclined herself, she started novel writing when her husband was off in the Air Force during the War. Almost a dozen novels followed, of which four have already been published in the U. S.: Three Wives, Youth Rides Out, False Spring, But Not For Love...
James Edward Freeman, 65, had in his youth no intention of going into the church. He was a New York boy, educated in public schools. He jerked soda in a Seventh Avenue drugstore, then went into the Long Island Railroad. He switched at 18 to the New York Central as an office-boy. Years later he returned to a reunion of old New York Central employes. Three of the executives* he recognized as oldtime office-boys and members with him of a church literary society. Office-Boy Freeman became an accountant for the railroad, dabbled in politics...
...wife says, laid away in lavender. State Fair, the 13th, is his first to be published, is the Literary Guild selection for May. Belonging to the fourth generation of lowans on both sides of the family, Author Stong was noted for hay-pitching and hog-calling in his youth, became a journalist later on. He foundered with the New York World when it went down, landed in an advertising agency (Young & Rubicam). The unusual native charm of his State Fair is achieved less by literary magic than by his hometown knowledge of the farmer-philosopher civilization indigenous to Iowa. Says...
...find no justification for rocking private automobiles, and derailing street cars, burning theatre gates and showering with eggs the exponents of the law. It looks childish to us, to say the least, and although the sentiments of the old lady appalled at the nature of American youth when "of such are Chicago gangsters"--is perhaps far fetched in the light of a very sudden spring day, still American youth must be in dire need of action or excitement or occupation or something if it can rouse itself to nothing better than an undisciplined orgy of useless pranks...
...cash down, furnish their fellows with essays, theses, reports. By the U. S. business credo, such a small, good business should be enlarged into a major industry. Last week it seemed in the way of becoming one. At Princeton appeared one R. J. Davey, a personable, beknickered youth who had already visited Yale and Harvard seeking testimonials for a service which sells essays, book-reviews, theses and speeches. His firm, Standard Encyclopedia Corp. of Chicago, offers a $69.50 encyclopedia and a "research bureau" for subscribers. According to his Princeton prospects, Salesman Davey frankly explained that the service...