Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What saps a nation's strength and pride? What cramps its manly form and stride, And turns its youth, unsanctified, To Coiltrils and carousers? What spreads corruption's baleful breed And makes the stoutest lad weak-kneed? Be warned--it is, it is indeed The cursed cult of trousers...
...story progresses, Charley Sullivan, in whispers, circulates an order that no one laugh when the joke has been given. As the new man finishes, waiting for the applause which is not to come, everyone wants to know where the joke is. They urge him to continue, assuring the youth that they are still listening and want him to finish. Of course he does not know what to say and usually does nothing except blush embarassingly. The dissatisfied listeners finally agree to let the new man have another chance on the following night, advising him, that he should have an extra...
...expressed his confidence that "the school now inaugurated will in fact serve its country not only by training your brilliant youth more quickly and surely to contribute to your own economic soundness and progress, but that it will in time through effective cooperation with our own school add much to that mutual understanding between our two peoples, which the future so much needs...
...prevent his ever returning to a study of art. He cited the story of a man who disapproved of his son's artistic leanings so sent him to Harvard Law School to prevent his ever returning to the brush and easel. The system was effective, Russell adds, as the youth could never recover his touch after his three years of "mental slavery" under Harvard law professors...
...Almost invariably, when a young man expresses his opinion, on whatever subject, his remarks are said by his elders to characterise the modern 'revolt of youth...