Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Matthew Talbot, born in 1856, was a thin, small man with a high forehead and big eyes. As a youth he was a harum-scarum, liked to drink whiskey and would sell his shoes for a drop of it. Then one day he agreed to take the pledge-for three months. It lasted for the rest of his life. Employed in a lumberyard, he became known as a quiet, pious man. What his fellows did not know was that he slept nights on a plank covered with a single sheet, a block of wood for his pillow...
...other than Vice President Charles Curtis, whose grandmother was a Kaw and who shows his interest in Indian art by decorating his imposing office with beaded moccasins and a tribal wickiup. One vice president of the exposition is 78-year-old Major-General Hugh Lenox Scott, who in his youth did his bit toward helping the Vanishing American vanish. Other patrons include: Ambassador Dawes, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair). Mrs. Herbert Hoover lent the show two Indian paintings from her own collection. Artist John Sloan and Ethnologist Oliver ("Laughing...
...Leonids--artistic dancers, species of leopard in Central Asia, members of a Swedish youth cult, meteors...
...conventional knowledge of Peter is that he cut off priests beards with a stout pair of shears, and that he spent his youth in Holland building boats by day and breaking windows by night. This is all very true and very salty, but there is more. The Vagabond likes to think of Peter as a man of gargantuan size who walks unceasingly with enormous strides through a broad land of Stigian darkness, carrying in his right hand a half burnt match. This is a pretty portrait, but it would never do in a blue book. Tomorrow Mr. Vernadsky will talk...
...with an appeal to traditional wisdom and proceeds to discuss a minor Greek poet. Homer is cited again and again, Aeschyins appears here and there. The English student of Greek philosophy is able to begin the "Republic" with a background as much like that of Plato as any modern youth can attain. In Honor Mods and at school he has been saturated in the same poets. He can supply an apt quotation where Plato has not bothered to do so. He becomes intimately acquainted with Greek history and Greek institutions. He is able to deal with Plato as the quintessence...