Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Edwards out, the City Council proceeded to choose its little presiding officer, Robert Harlin, to be Mayor of Seattle until the next election. Bom in England, Mayor Harlin sorted coal there in his youth, later served for years as president of the United Mine Workers of Washington State...
...story concerns wealthy people who, it is fair to assume, would be bothered by fewer problems if they had more work to do. One of them is a youth whose fiancee has jilted him. With more chagrin than enthusiasm, he relapses into matrimony with the heroine who loves him and who is admired, puppy fashion, by a young architect. Natural complications arise. The husband meets his old girl again, starts an affair with her. His wife is angry, puzzled, finally sad, until feeble advances by the architect show her that one way not to find love...
...shaft was re-opened for repairs. School was out but officials were hastily summoned. Crouched at the bottom of the shaft, by its side a jackknife, a pair of work shoes, a few shreds of moldering cloth, lay a dusty skeleton. The skull was cracked. It had been a youth of from 16 to 20 years old. It had been there perhaps ten years. That was all: none could remember any disappearances or accidents. Many students had come & gone...
...definitely promised in answer to prayer; if the answer will not be the re-establishment of serene and tranquil relations, it will have its answer at any rate in Christian patience, in holy courage, in the infallible joy of suffering something with Jesus and for Jesus, with the youth and for the youth so dear to Him, until the hour hidden in the mystery of the divine heart which will infallibly be the most opportune for the cause of truth and of good...
Culver Academy's reiterated aim is one that many an older school regards as supererogatory: to train the youth in self-control, stick-to-it-iveness, fair play, courage, self-restraint, etc. etc. Founded in 1894 by Henry Harrison Culver, stove manufacturer and onetime itinerant clock salesman whose own education had been meagre, it has today a fine military Tudor-Gothic plant and 677 cadets?twice as many as any other U. S. private military school. On the wooded shores of Lake Maxinkuckee it stands, hard by the farm where Founder Culver met and married Emily Jane Hand...