Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Belgian Château of Steenockerzeel, near Louvain, where Archduke Otto and his indomitable mother, his seven brothers and sisters have been living for over a year. Night before "the birthday every window in the chateau was ablaze with lights for a birthday dinner. Otto himself, a pleasant youth in a scarlet & white Hungarian noble's costume, sat at the head of a table that contained members of the proudest, moldiest families in Europe. Ex-Empress Zita, in dead black, her only jewelry a large gold cross, sat at his right. With old Habsburg formality guests went...
...dispenses portraits of the first U. S. President at 2 ? each by the millions: Post master General Walter Folger Brown. An nounced he: "It is a novel portrait -and a good portrait -one I had never seen copied before. We hope to show, in stamps, Washington as a youth, as a civil engineer, as commander-in-chief of the Army, and so on through his life. The Richmond portrait depicts him about the time when he went out with Braddock...
...Commission, now (like President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission-see p. 20) nearing the close of its extensive labors, examined two star witnesses: Sir Arthur Keysall Yapp, Deputy President of the British Y. M. C. A., declared that, "since the War the trend in drinking by British youth has been toward moderation . . . toward beer." Sir Arthur Balfour* steel tycoon of Sheffield, England, testified: "I have visited the United States about 40 times. ... I have made several recent visits of from two to three months each. ... A visit to the United States today is almost a nuisance...
Faust, the transformation scene by Tenor Fernand Ansseau, Basso Marcel Journet and orchestra under Conductor Piero Coppola (Victor, $2.50)?Two famed French-opera singers capably interpret the scene in which Mephistopheles restores Faust to youth...
...power is slipping from him. He is, as a rival so aptly says, with "one foot in bankruptcy, the other in the grave." Yet he struggles to dominate his opponents, to maintain his independence, and to provide for the heirs who are the remnant of an ill-spent youth. It is this struggle that the actor portrays with his usual appreciation and subtlety. "Old English" dies in the end, the victim of his own will, and it is here that the movie falters dangerously. An obsequy held over his dead body by a maid whose speech is the speech...