Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Actress Estelle Taylor, wife of retired Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey: "I'm going to ... stay with the stage as long as I can hold myself together. When I lose my youth I'll resort to monkey-glands and face-lifting. . . . Babies? Never...
...evidence of good faith before they would pay off. She went to Chicago, first told Mr. Litsinger that she needed the money for business purposes, later apprising him of the real circumstances. Then she returned to Springfield. Accompanied by Mr. Litsinger's nephew Fred, a timid youth of 27, she met the gamblers, who inveigled the young man into staking the money on a turn of the cards. Neither she nor young Mr. Litsinger quite understood what went on after that, but the gamesters pocketed the money and slid from the room...
...quite suitable for her own gallery. Photographer Beaton is one of those sensitive, talented, emotional and precocious young men who seem increasingly numerous in Britain, traditional mother of the bulldog breed. Long and lank, with luxuriant curling eyelashes, he gives an impression of terrific world weariness for a youth of 25. This impression is rapidly broken down by the exultant whoops with which he greets his friends and acquaintances in theatre lobbies and other public places. Broadwayfarers were still repeating last week a typical Beaton bonmot applied month ago to a famed, garish nightclub personality : "My dear...
...compliment would so surely annoy Artist Luks. A beefy, lusty fellow, in excellent health, he realizes as well as any of his critics that he is now doing the best work of his career, takes great delight in defending the accomplishments of middle age over the showy triumphs of youth...
...Vagabond at rest watches with the sad sublimity of a Greek stoic the passing of Harvard into tabloid education, the riveting of its density to gilded monuments of steel and brick. In the dim light that gleams through the halos of its many Saints, he watches Bluebooks and blaming youth ruffie the innocuous desuetude of Memorial Hall. In both new and old, he sees halfbaked meats and widow's weeds coldly furnishing the Examination table. It is not remarkable that he looks forward with a whitening eye to the dreary 1,252,800 seconds that remain before the first lecture...