Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That's the spirit of the college youth of today as we see it. --The Indiana Daily Student...
...Swine!" Not many foreigners realize that when a Nazi youth is called up for military service the Army sergeants at whose mercy he finds himself commonly tell him to "Forget everything the Party taught you and remember you are a dog of a swine like the rest of these raw recruits!" If the Nazi has been an officer in the political Storm Troops, the Army sergeants up to now have been even harsher in knocking the conceit out of him. This attitude, raised from the brutality of a sergeant to the suavity of a general, was what Dictator Hitler encountered...
Another experimenter with Daphnia is Professor Arthur Mangun Banta of Brown University. Dr. Banta has found that the average water flea which has all it wants to eat from birth lives 29 days. But if the flea is starved in its youth, given an ample ditt in maturity, it lives 42 to 51 days, growing and maintaining vigor and reproductivity throughout that long life...
...that sort of by-play," Mr. Holton complained to Mitchell. "I do not wear long pants just because they become me." But Author Mitchell hits the authentic Lardner note most strongly in The Pickle Works, a brilliant sketch of Jimmy Durante. nursing a hangover and memories of his youth at a rehearsal, talking himself from gloom to good humor until he launches on a flight of Broadway poetry: "The stage may be the pickle works to some people, but it's a big box of candy to me. Look at that blonde. ... I should be paying the boss...
Then came the early teens. "Humming with pseudo-sophisticated nonchalance, we enjoyed our first shave and reminisced on that glorious afternoon when we'd won the game single handed, saved the day, and made the world safe for Democracy. A reaction was only natural for so precocious a youth, and it came in a tendency toward manfully swapping glances with Theda Bara or in clinging to our ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts...