Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here General Wing's subordinate, engaged in the less important task of ironing a pair of pajamas, interposed a remark pregnant with all the cynicism of modern youth. "Oh, yeah", quoth the subordinate. His sickly smile quickly disappeared when Wing's glinting eye admonished...
...been in use for centuries by churches and by despotic governments which have become self-perpetuating through this method of withholding original ideas from their subjects. Dr. Counts would apparently apply his principle to democracy and, at an early age, force an implicit trust therein on the nation's youth. This method of teaching may prolong the life of an institution, but it does not lead to true thinking, a more worthy object of education...
...Could M. Jeanrichard do anything about it? M. Jeanrichard could try. He took the watch apart, spent several weeks trying to put it together again. Finally he sold out his forge and went to Geneva. He returned to establish watchmaking in Le Locle. One of his apprentices was a youth named Pellaton. Long after Blacksmith Jeanrichard was dead, Pellatons made watches, saw them grow smaller & smaller, finer & finer. The present Pellaton, Georges, who moved from Le Locle to Geneva, has seen the advent of wristwatches, electric clocks, self-winding watches. Last week he made his own contribution...
Knee (1890) buried the Indian's dream in blood and snow. Black Elk leaves his story there, concludes: "I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth-you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer and the sacred tree is dead...
...Author. Born in J. M. Synge's Arran Islands in 1896, Liam O'Flaherty has infused something of the Playboy into his career. Educated in a Jesuit College, as a youth he was intensely religious, scandalized his family by joining the Irish Guards to save Catholic Belgium. He was shell-shocked in the War; returned to Ireland for the Irish Revolution. Since then he has roamed over half the world chopping logs, working in restaurants, printshops. He was employed in a Hartford tire factory when he began to write his first short stories, invariably waste-paper-basketed when...