Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience with the Royal Family of England after her performance last year in London, the Queen complimented her and said she wished she had taken up skating in her youth. She has also met the Prince of Wales...
Opened soon, just around the corner on Third Avenue from the first green-fronted store, a second: The Wholesome Products Co., malt & hops, imported cordials and glassware. This too was guarded by the Supreme Protective System, but the clerk, a mere youth, appeared to be in a state of chronic fright...
...weighty arguments adduced for and against a "High table", and similar entertaining but not wholly essential details as to costume and behavior at those functions connected with the problem of combining social converse, "atmosphere" and food into a harmonious whole which shall contribute to the intellectual training of our youth...
...churchwomen met in the Hartman Theatre, named after the late Dr. Samuel S. Hartman, inventor of "Peruna," sensational oldtime patent medicine (which once contained about 40% alcohol). Other meetings were held in hotels, schools, theatres. Layman after layman, pastor after pastor, youth after youth, expounded world peace, church unity, Prohibition, etc., etc. As the days passed, it appeared that the convention was definitely Modernistic. Vigorously so, progressive, for example, was Samuel S. Wyer, baldish, mustachioed Columbus consulting engineer, who addressed the laymen thus: "I doubt if there is any other book which ranges from such sublime heights to such degrading...
Challenge of Youth is a new and nauseating development of the ordeal by sex-problem. A professor's daughter in a small New England college town joins her friends in a league to combat the moral vigilance of their elders. Shortly thereafter her father inadvertently opens a door leading out of the front parlor and discovers her in the processes of sin. By the end of the play he feels he understands her better, has made a less romantic, more reasonable adjustment to life...