Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brisk October morning last year, in a parking lot at North Arlington, N. J., a policeman, mildly curious, wakened a pimply youth of 18 asleep at the wheel of a large sedan. The boy yawned, told the inquisitive policeman to look in the car's trunk. The good cop did so and shuddered. Wedged in the trunk was the mangled body of Dr. James G. Littlefield, 63, stuffed in the rear seat the body of his wife. The boy, Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me., then told a strange and horrible story: that he had killed the old doctor...
...announcing that "all matters in dispute between them have been amicably settled." Items: they will file a deed of separation enabling them to be divorced in 18 months; two-year-old Son Lance will be in the charge of his mother as a child, of his father as a youth; the Countess makes no settlement on the Count...
...distance from the church. So far as the press could learn, there has been no such honoring of royalty in Moscow since the Revolution -yet last-week the famed Communist Union of Militant Atheists took it lying down. The Secret Police kept hands off, evidently on instructions. In his youth, Joseph Stalin studied for the Orthodox priesthood, but that in 1938 priestly offices would be performed in the Soviet capital for a Queen of Orthodox Rumania-and such a Queen as orchidaceous Marie-is something few Reds ever expected...
...Cradle unemployed youth...
...President's Cabinet. He may yet do so next session. If and when a new Department of Welfare is created, it will doubtless be staffed by Harry Hopkins' present crew headed by idealistic Chief Deputy Administrator Aubrey Willis Williams who also is chief of the National Youth Administration. As a new Department of the Government, WPA would come in full-fledged and ramified to a degree rivaling even what Herbert Hoover made of Commerce, what lazy thinking made of Interior, for years the great catch-all department. Head of it would be a lanky, cadaverous Cabinet officer...