Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Charles Asbury Stephens, 79, juvenile story writer; at Norway, Maine. Dr. Stephens was on the staff of the Youth's Companion (merged in 1929 with American Boy) more than 40 years, retired last year. He estimated he had written and published well over twelve million words, mostly in short stories & serials...
Jazz Thrill Baby Birth Control Flirtation Unmarried Mother Night Club Victorian Free Love Old Maid Flaming Youth After they have talked and laughed over the "word test," boys & girls may try the "opinion test," deciding quickly whether the statements about drinking, dancing and fornication are true or false. Then they are ready for discussion of problems based upon such questions as these (For girls): What is wrong in spooning, just letting a boy put his arm around you and kissing you? What is "passion"? What if a boy just steals a kiss? (For boys): What sensations (evil) come from spooning...
...historic movements of militant youth--the Young Germany, Young-Italy, Young Hungary of the nineteenth century--were essentially revolutionary movements. The Young Germans who are drawn today to Hitler or the Communists are enlisting for revolution, at least by way of title. The young Camelots du Roi in Paris are out to overthrow the French Republic. In this country we have no such issues to inflame youth. On lesser questions the democratic environment favors a solution by democratic machinery. --New York Times...
...United States, being a young nation, has ever had before it the examples of many other countries. But youth always has been peculiarly attractive to the uncertain ages. In trying to remain young; in having its face lifted by speed records Great Britain may have been guilty of the folly of aging men and women. And now, in company with other nations, England is entered upon the distressed state into which those of uncertain ago embark when their age becomes certain...
...youth, with their strength and comparative freedom, the situation is a challenge to their understanding, their sacrifice and their elate effort to equip themselves for a higher intellectual level of existence, whatever the economic conditions. Dean Gauss in The Princeton Alumni Weekly, speaking of the great majority of college students, says that they are "cheerful and happy," and that, "unlike their elders, they do not everlastingly talk about the depression." They hope that "things will go back"; but whatever happens, they are not going back to the senseless way in which many of them lived in prosperous days. It cannot...