Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more conservative, the more find the more conservative, the more narrowed, and the dependent individual; on the other the more radical, the more care-free member, relatively independent of society or of business. Between the two there has been and will be the conflict between old age and youth that in the latter case approaches disdain and in the former tends to paternalistic superiority...
Though Britain's best educated youth are loath to enter the Church (average pay is ?400 annually: $2,000), there is no actual shortage of applicants. But there is a definite lack of funds to pay for their five to seven years of training. Hence the Church of England aims to distribute its clergy more evenly throughout its 13,775 parishes...
...impossible to take the feature, Young Sinners, seriously. Nor would it be desirable. Purporting, as it does, to display the futility of existence as existed by modern youths and maids it makes out a very pretty case. Many more feet of film than is necessary are used to impress that the jennesse doer of today waste both time and money in parties a la whoopee. These sequences are unduly exaggerated, and for one who is spending his youth at present hardly convince of verisimilitude. But sense the point is made, the period of rehabilitation is entered and the story moves...
...sorry. He has never been what the middle west vulgarly calls "collegiate," but he is a sentimentalist--which is a refined collegiatism. He was glad to see that men who have left the gates of Harvard two and three years behind can still maintain that joy of youth which is the graduate's greatest heritage. It was reassuring to know that adolescense is immortal...
...respectably blase manner which have been mastered by Hollywood producers so recently. The Good Bad Girl (Columbia). The penalties of an antisocial career are here set forth in the case of a well-intentioned country girl (Mae Clarke) who becomes friendly with a gangster, later marries an honest youth of impeccable connections. The scandal of her past associations forces her back into disreputable surroundings but she is last seen reunited with her husband. Marie Prevost, now grown from a svelte ingenue into a buxom comedienne, gives a gay impersonation of a gun-moll's friend, but the picture should...