Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court of the Medici. He procures young girls for his cousin the duke, performs so many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio's own soul. To revenge himself, he finally kills his cousin-a scene made memorable last week by the superb...
...sense it is a case book for soldiers of the future. And all the leaders of the Confederacy appear somewhere in its pages, as human beings rather than military automatons. Assuredly rich in anecdote about the South of 1861-65, there is little treatment of Sturat's earlier youth about Richmond and the front-line, the book has many advantages. It is well-written, personal, and never boring...
...social consequences-of what? Of a law that seems to go against the grain." Four London adolescents caught stealing motorcars from a warehouse which they had "broken and entered" pleaded in court last week: "We only did what Legs Diamond did and he always got off." Because of their youth and innocence the four were let off on parole after being severely lectured...
...Treaty and the way the victors have administered it, he said, "incenses our people, and especially our Youth!" "The maintenance of Germany's armed forces," he added, "is the Reichstag's most important task. . . . Germany must recover her freedom!" [Widespread cheering, fierce Fascist cries of "Curtius must be imprisoned in a fortress!"-] Battle of Ballots. Result of the Chancellor's "fighting speech" was to consolidate and fire with new loyalty the Centrist-Socialist parties group which he leads -notwithstanding that the speech contained a qualifying statement that Germany will advance toward her aims ''solely along...
...success biography of Samuel Winningham, watermelon tycoon; notes upon Alexandre Dumas, pére (he was a quadroon) and Ignatius Sancho, "the forgotten man of letters"; an argument against birth control with detailed objections to contraceptives; a debate, "Is It Possible for the Church to Serve the Modern Youth?" Jokes were also included. Sample: Big Congo Chief-"Waiter, where's that roast white meat I ordered an hour ergo?" Congo Waiter-"The missionary ship is an hour late, sir!" Nearly 50,000 copies of the first issue were quickly grabbed up. But not all Negroes heaped praise upon...