Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general the matter assumes a different tinge. The Industrial Revolution and its later ramifications extending well into the Twentieth Century have introduced for all practical purposes a new code of morals Separated from the agricultural system where a literal interpretation of Christian tradition could well have been enforced, Youth is bound either to remain celibate under the pressure of the Factory Age or to draw up its own moral code. It prefers the latter, but is hampered by superstition and Victorian prejudice. The paradox of the educated classes with small familles being fairly well-informed of methods of prevention while...
Delegates then heard energetic Mrs. Carleton H. Palmer of Fairfield, Conn, and Brooklyn, past president of the Association, say: "The Eastern and the Western Hemispheres shall meet. Thirty years ago the Junior League and the 20th Century were born. . . . The time has come. . . . The youth of America should lead the advance guard of an international movement endorsing general disarmament. . . . The ideals which have inspired the Junior League to a steady onward march of evolution and progress are an example to the world of the dynamic power of fearlessness, of goodwill, and of faith in mankind...
Miss Lowell is very much concerned with the place of poetry in a democratic society. "Imagination," she tells us, "is the root of all civilization," and poetry is needed to "exert its imaginative training upon youth." With this premise Miss Lowell developes some theories which contribute her share to the educational traditions of her family. She concludes the "there is one great fault in our educational systems today; they teach, but they do not train; and the one faculty without which no other can come to fruition is never really trained at all, for we cannot deny that imagination...
...carefully revised is our sincere belief. Nevertheless. If a dual contract between Harvard and Princeton could adequately take into account the interests of Yale's pivotal position, then refusal to negotiate would frustrate all hope of resumption by overemphasizing a set of rules that are excellent but not sacrosanct. Youth is impatient--sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly. It is impatient to see a reconciliation between long-separated friends...
...Mandalay, Author Maugham met the old lady who had been the real cause, in her youth, of the British annexation of Upper Burma (Road to Mandalay, TIME, Feb. 3). Camped in the Burmese jungle at night, Maugham preferred patience (he knows 17 kinds) to the works of Shakespeare. In the Shan States he admired the women's dress: short coat, kilt, leggings, with a gap between coat and kilt. Says he: "I could not fail to notice how much character it gives a woman's face to display her navel." From time to time in his travels Maugham...