Word: youthful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last fortnight. The Kipling Society had a banquet in London presided over by grey-haired Major General Lionel Charles Dunsterville, better known as the original Stalky. Poet Kipling did not attend. He stayed with his big, quiet, little-known wife, thinking. Days like the days of his youth seemed at hand. Last week a detachment of 400 officers and men from the Welch Regiment and the Royal Scots sailed for duty in India. The replacement was no larger than usually sails at this time of year, but the men knew, Mr. Kipling knew, the world knew that Britain was preparing...
Married. Reinhold Niebuhr, 39, leader of U. S. religious youth, editor of World Tomorrow, professor at Union Theological Seminary; and Ursula Mary Keppel-Compton; in Winchester, England...
...used by the farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk. A dignified gentleman in front of him suddenly slipped and would have fallen had it not been for the quickness of our hero. The gentleman thanked...
...Vagabond has been wondering; a peculiarly collegiate occupation. His thoughts have been tinged with the melancholy of the times and the sadness of youth faced with an uncertain future. There has been mingled in his soul a great desire to probe to the foundations and an equally strong fear and shrinking from exposing his inner workings to the chill light of analysis. But like the thief returning to the scene of his crime, the Vagabond returns again and again to his morbid pastime...
Today, all the Vagabond does is to wonder. Yet from his vantage point of perpetual youth he can think back into the generations of men who never stopped to look inside themselves, to know why things happened as they did. When the country was first young, when men fought with nature for his life and his home there was no time for this analysis, which paralyses the will. Later when nature was harnessed to the iron wheels of industry there was still no time for such thoughtful folly, because one man was busy fighting another for the power which...