Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Board Governor, had been largely blamed for the Board's failure to check last year's stockmarket crash. His warnings had been ineffectual, his restrictive policies barren of results. Mr. Meyer, on the other hand, is a forceful aggressive character who has known Wall Street from his youth. (He was perhaps the first man to make a thorough statistical analysis of U. S. Steel's investment possibilities...
None of the guests was over 25. Their youth makes their ideas susceptible to a criticism of jejunity. On the other hand, their present ability premises future leadership in their denominations. They may portend the end of a phase of U. S. Protestantism which (vide Bruce Barton) has adapted Christ to contemporary ideals and mores...
...determined to stamp out the agents of the foreign power who are destroying our industry and corrupting our youth. . . . They came here and held meetings in which they mocked God and parodied religion in a most brutal way. We are determined to stop this...
Mendelssohn: Midsummer-Night's Dream: Overture (Columbia, two records. $2 ea.). Probably the best, certainly the most popular of all Mendelssohn, this overture was written when the composer was a youth of 17. Columbia's new rendition is conducted ably but not brilliantly by Elie Cohen, Chef d'Orchestre at the Paris Opera Comique...
Anquetil leaves, and Sebastian pursues his amour with the ageing but resplendent beauty. When scandal threatens, however, she abandons him, though it costs her her heart and her youth. Sebastian roams on darkly, rebellious but ineffective. For a time he finds a pretty young middle-class doctor's wife refreshing, until her bourgeois virtue thwarts him. Later he loves a hard-headed little model for her honest kindness, and there is mention of a game-keeper's daughter. His only steadfast affection is for Chevron, its venerable house, its loyal tenantry, even its exhausting duties. Increasingly the proprieties grow upon...