Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nebraska Volunteers -have died. Cuban revolutionists live longer. President Machado, General Menocal and Colonel Mendieta are all veterans of Cuba's War of Independence. Even Cosme de la Torriente, Cuba's grave member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, suddenly remembered his youth as an officer under Garcia and wrote violent articles last week, throwing his lot in with the new insurrectos...
...stated topic of the World's Conference, which followed preliminary gatherings at Toronto last fortnight, was "Youth's Adventure with God." As is usual at such conferences, the Y. M. C. A. concerned itself chiefly with international problems on which it hopes that its busy world-wide membership may have some influence. Delegates from 50 countries last week passed resolutions calling for revision of the Versailles Treaty, abolition of tariff barriers, abolition of national armaments. The German delegation held separate meetings to draw up a resolution absolving Germany of sole War guilt, later endorsed by the other delegates...
...songs except Honeymoon Lane. It is a sentimental but engaging work, at times lively with the childish antics of Ray Dooley (Mrs. Eddie Dowling), at times in the nature of a Dowling soliloquy on the virtues of faith and of cherry pie. It relates the adventures of an enterprising youth who, discharged as croupier in the gambling rooms of a resort hotel, becomes manager of a rival boarding-place. Aided by the motherly proprietress, who makes succulent pastries; by her small granddaughter (Ray Dooley) who uses carpet sweepers as roller-skates and is continually scratching herself; and by an itinerant...
Other books: The Troll Garden, The Bohemian Girl, Alexander's Bridge, 0 Pioneers! The Song of the Lark, My Antonia, Youth and the Bright Medusa, The Professor's House...
Between transatlantic telephone calls (see p. 9), President Hoover told the convention (and the U. S. over a nation-wide hook-up): "Despite differences of language, tradition and custom, the youth of the world have found in the organization a common ground for spiritual training and service to their Church, community and country. . . . The best index to its purposes and values are the principles it stands for . . . International peace . . . sobriety . . . character . . . righteousness and respect for law." Spontaneously, as the President finished his speech, the convention jumped to its feet, burst into the Doxology: "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow...