Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wonderful runner, A. F. Newton of South Africa. Better late than never. Newton was born within a mile or two of Bedford, England, famous because it was whilst in jail in that town that John Bunyan wrote his Pilgrim's Progress. New to a left England when a youth of 15 to study and take up farming in Rhodesia, South Africa, and as stated never took up running seriously until near 40 years old, yet at 44 and 45 he had smashed to smithereens all former world's records whether amateur or professional for 50 and 100 miles...
...Socialist government of Vienna, Franz Josef's home, negatively celebrated his anniversary by decreeing that a cinema, specially produced for the occasion under the title The Emperor Franz Josef as Ruler and Man, was improper fare for Austrians under 16 years of age and "calculated to mislead the youth of the country." Austrian royalists had tried to arouse some enthusiasm for Der Alte Kaiser fortnight ago during bourgeois Vienna's enthusiastic celebration of the 125th anniversary of the introduction of the Wienerwurst, by broadcasting the fact that Franz Josef's breakfast was almost invariably a pair of sausages, a portion...
...John Leonard Hines, William Lassiter, Hanson Edward Ely, Fred Winchester Sladen, William Ruthven Smith, who all outrank General MacArthur in seniority and who all will retire within 18 months, never to have a chance to be full generals. The proud & pleased friends of General MacArthur pointed out that his youth is an advantage, that since the office was created in 1903 seven Chiefs of Staff have been advanced to it over their seniors' heads...
They recalled that Newton Diehl Baker, Wartime Secretary of War, had said: "Why, I wouldn't hesitate a minute to make MacArthur Chief of Staff notwithstanding his youth. And I predict he will be. . . ." President Hoover last week commented: "There are several very eminent generals who rank General MacArthur, but none of them could serve more than a year and a half of the full term...
...JONATHAN SCRIVENER-Claude Houghton-Simon & Schuster ($1). One James Wrexham, impoverished but well-educated Englishman past his first youth, is distastefully employed in a real-estate office. One day he answers an advertisement in the London Times, is accepted, becomes secretary to mysterious, invisible Jonathan Scrivener...