Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success that recently he had to decline invitations to deliver 30 per month more. Last week he reassumed his pre-War personality, gave a one-man painter's show in Manhattan. Leon Dabo was born at Detroit, Mich, into a French-Canadian family, spoke "Canuck" French in his youth. Aged 16 he went to Manhattan to study under the late famed John LaFarge, who later sent him to Puvis de Chavannes in France. That artist enrolled him in the Academie Julian, added his own instruction afterwards. Whistler was his final master. Then Leon Dabo set out to range...
Theodore Herman Dreiser, 60, has begun to take stock of himself. Dawn, An Autobiography of Early Youth, is a portentous beginning. Couched in inimitable Dreiserese, stamped on every page with his trademark of bewildered honesty, it begins thus: ''The average earthling, as I have reason to know, has frequently the greatest hesitation in revealing the net of flesh and emotion and human relationship into which he was born and which conditioned his early efforts at living and too often his subsequent place in life and society. I am free to say here and naw that...
...regards as "a serviceable means of passing the time." Back in Chicago he worked in a hardware store, drove a laundry truck, changed jobs usually for the worse. But then he entered the lists of love, acquitted himself not so badly. That perked him up. The book (and his youth, says Dreiser) ends with his discharge for "borrowing" money from his boss's funds. There is still a long way to go before this gangling 19-year-old becomes the ponderous, dewlapped author of An American Tragedy, the principal pachyderm of U. S. letters, unrebuked slapper of a Nobel...
...that there was once a time when an aspiring youth could actually go to college on "nothing per year". The phrase has its advantages as a source of encouragement, but there has always been a money cost of going to college. The House Plan has made current the question of what its costs to go to Harvard. For the twenty-years-out graduate who is about to send his son to Harvard the glories of the new Harvard fade a little when he is faced with the facts of increasing costs. By some process of reasoning, the House Plan...
Long years ago in London he saw Pinafore with Gilbert in the lead while Sullivan waved an imperious baton over the harrassed base drummer. When Gilbert sang "The Captain of the Pinafore" old men wept, gay youth cheered, and sad matrons forget how poorly the dinner had gone off. If debutantes had existed at that time they would have been heard to utter that highest praise of "Gosh that's swell" as Gilbert juggled the last high note. And once after too much port and Iolanthe the Vagabond went down Pieadilly with a poppy and a lily. Yea, verily, there...