Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a decided tint of Pan drawn by Gilbert K. Chesterton in an interview which the visiting lecturer granted the Yale News. Mr. Chesterton feels that the youth of America matures too quickly. He bemoans the fact that when an undergraduate is about to leave college he has experienced almost everything. In contrast the closer ties between the authorities and the students, the "domestic college life", of English universities Hends to keep the undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge young...
...slender novelette which became a play and afterward a cinematographic vehicle for the late Rudolph Valentino, as a source for this romantic costume melodrama about Aaron Burr. Unfortunately, that mood is not recaptured, probably not recapturable, for the inspiration of Monsieur Beaucaire, of its swagger and dandyism, was youth, and in Colonel Satan there is no youth and no reality except a shadow of the personal bad luck of the courageous man who wrote it. Author of a dozen engaging novels and several good plays of the American scene, Booth Tarkington, now almost totally blind, and having at 61 begun...
...fought in the War as a soldier in the ranks. I know what war means. Terrible memories of those years when whole generations of the youth of so many countries were laid low by the hail of lead have not been canceled from my mind. I myself was seriously wounded. In the years that have since elapsed and at the present time, both as man and as head of the government, I have had before me a panorama of political, economic and moral consequences of the War, and not in Italy alone...
...long road and the worm has turned. With youth, discontent is frequently the first step toward progress, and occasionally dissatisfaction has led to some rather original methods of melioration. A young man who has evidently experienced a protracted period of unemployment offered yesterday morning in the advertising section of a New York paper "a chance for an employer". The announcement suggests that a personable young male of twenty-one, enjoying excellent health, and a prepossessing appearance, with an education and a liberal share of gray matter, will consider legibly written offers of less than 500 words from prospective employers...
...interesting account of the precocious physical and sexual development of an American boy. Rare as such a condition is, it is not altogether unheard of. There is a Greek description (Plegon. de Mirab. Cap. XXXII) of one who in the space of seven years was an infant, a youth, a mature person, an old man, married a wife, died, and left issue...