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Word: youthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youth" as your correspondent suggests though the "juvenility of my mind" is, of course, arguable. I will venture to point out to him that I was a member of Harvard University at a time when, he in all reasonable possibility, was a denizen of Sank Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Here Endeth the Lesson | 11/14/1931 | See Source »

Judith, half-gypsy daughter to old "Rogue" Herries, 18th Century Cumberland squire, was a wild thing from her youth up, but she had character. Her wildness got her into many a scrape, led her to marry Georges Paris, an attractive, coldhearted, unscrupulous rascal. Character made her stick to him when he was unfaithful to her, even when the police were after him. Finally Georges went too far: he murdered a man; whereupon the man's old father murdered Georges. Judith became a governess for a while, then went back to the Herries family in Cumberland. She might have married again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Red | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...Florida, the last stronghold of fundamentalism and all its marks. His ringing tones have placed him on the side of the angels but I am sure that even the seraphim as well as parsons-in-embryo should be permitted an occasional snicker at the laughability of institutions and of youth. (Name withheld by request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or Try Dayton, Tennessee | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Loow's state--"The Sin of Madelon Claudet." Helen emotes from youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 11/5/1931 | See Source »

Wonder Boy is a savage, undisciplined, hilarious comedy of the cinemindustry, presented in the breathless manner for which producer Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page) is famed. Peter Hinkle (William Challee), a youth without a brain in his head, wants to become a dentist, gets a part in a film to pay his way to New York. President Phil Mashkin (Gregory Ratoff) of the Paragon Pictures Corp., seeking a way to get rid of Star Mabel Fenton (Hazel Dawn), hits upon the idea of making Peter Hinkle a star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Other Plays in Manhattan | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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