Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was virtually no disturbance, except that a young man in the crowd pulled out a revolver. Dictator Machado's efficient police sprang upon the youth and disarmed him before he could fire. Amid near panic, the band burst into Cuba's national anthem, gradually reassuring everyone. When confidence was restored, His Excellency continued his rather difficult speech...
...girl who will call everything either 'swell' or 'lousy.' I expect she'll be lousier than she is swell. You spoil your women. We spoil our men. They can stand it better. Women turn out best in adversity. It may be hard on their youth and beauty, but it's good for their character. . . . [Novelist Priestley has begotten one daughter...
...company has branch offices in Berlin, London, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Chicago, New York. U. S. Citizens hasten to buy Rosenthal figures in all the European branches, will not buy them in their own country. Potter Rosenthal admires the U. S. The Wanderjahr to which every well-to-do German youth feels entitled, Potter Rosenthal spent on the western plains in 1874 as "ein wirklicher Cowboy." Through the Art Alliance of America he offered in 1930 three prizes, $1,500, $750, $500 for small sculpture "typically American in theme," suitable for reproducing in Rosenthal china and by sculptors living...
...interesting sidelights on college life outside the United States were brought out by news dispatches yesterday, and after reading them, one stops to wonder if the American college youth is such a virile animal, after...
Most men's decisions about their careers are leaps in the dark. The danger of leaping too soon is that a person of narrow experience is apt to remain blind to the qualities lacking in his particular existence. Routine jobs mould youth too fast. If college gives undergraduates the opportunity to travel some distance along several roads, if it keeps a man "unformed" until he can share with some intelligence the choice of his form, it is not the worst place to send this same "callow youth...