Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nazi ideology the paternal State watches over the acts, minds, morals and even the manners of its children. So last week self-confident young Baldur von Schirach-who although only 30 is generally rated high in the Nazi Party as head of the Hitler Youth organization-looked on Germany's marriageable daughters and decided something should be done to make them more attractive. For the blue-skirted, white-bloused young Mädchen who have stomped past him at innumerable parades, he decreed beauty culture...
...frantically; they write doleful letters; they try their "pull" on Housemasters and Admissions Committees. But the big majority of them are simply cast aside as college orphans, on the basis of the old saying that one can't fill bottles already full. Again it is a sad story, but youth must be served, on the Old Campus even as in the Yard...
...mother has mellowed some since her rapturous and highly-opinionated youth, and so she is opposed to the project. But she is embarrassed into inglorious submission when the daughter reads her a poetic account of the mother's life of some twenty years ago with an enthusiastic young Communist. It appears that the girl has been writing a thesis in college on the contribution of Greenwich Village to freedom in American literature and morals, and incidentally delving into her mother's racy past. The latter soon has company in her embarrassment, however, because the partner of her ecstatic adventure...
...although it contains the story of Corn-plow's flight to Europe and the eventual reconciliation of his family as a result, most of The Prodigal Parents is given over to scenes in which Howard or Sara bait Cornplow, Cornplow gets mad, the children make wild speeches about youth and Communism and Cornplow answers with speeches defending businessmen. When Cornplow refuses to give $500 to the Spanish government, Sara snarls at him, "Heaven knows I can't give anything with my wretched income," and Cornplow snarls right back, "I know I'm just a millionaire capitalist . . . only...
...make her first bow in Boston when she appears in a joint recital with her brother Yehudi at Symphony Hall next Sunday afternoon. Hephzibah has attracted much attention by the few public appearances she has made, notably in New York. These appearances have been limited on acount of her youth...