Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dictators Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler lead the world in making millions of young people take healthful exercise whether they want to or not. but Neville Chamberlain was too wise to ask his British audience to look with admiration on the bronzed, athletic youth of any place except Scandinavia. "I am afraid," cried tentative Orator Chamberlain, "that in this matter [physical culture] some other nations, and especially Scandinavians, have got ahead of us, but I am confident we shan't be long in making up for lost time! ... I appeal for a concentrated and determined crusade against ignorance, carelessness...
...ambitious, comedy) highly entertaining. Director McClintic's staging of an automobile ride, choir rehearsal and picnic in the year 1902 makes the second act a riot of Americana. Burgess Meredith proves himself the most accomplished of young U. S. actors, neatly running the gamut of middle age and youth, inspired duffer and embittered worldling. As the inventor's crony, Russell Collins (The Group Theatre's "Johnny Johnson") gives a compelling exhibition of bluff, whimsical idealism. Lillian Gish portrays girlhood and harassed middle age with charm and feeling, gives the finest performance of her stage career. With...
...wrong conclusion that The Red Pony contains erotic or esoteric matter too caviarish for the general. On the contrary, The Red Pony is neither scandalous nor abstruse but of an innocence that almost qualifies it for juvenile readers. It consists of three episodes based on Author Steinbeck's youth. Central character is a healthy, shy, towheaded, 10-year-old farm boy named Jody Tiflin. Given a red pony colt by his father, coached in its training by the hired hand, Jody is in perpetual seventh heaven except when he is in school. A few days before the pony...
...They Gave Him a Gun" is the story of a youth whose aversion to killing in 1917 turns into his source of income as a racketeer after the Armistice. Knowing he is weak both in physique and in character, the War teaches him the warped idea that with a gun in front of him he is as strong as any man. Franchot Tone, looking less like a plucked chicken than usual, gives an excellent portrayal as the dough-boy gangster, and he is adequately backed by the performances of Spencer Tracy and Gladys Goerge...
...Hanover group" believed to be most perplexing to young folk was Sex. This generation of parents, the conferees believed, is too busy or too puzzled to give adequate answers to its children's sex questions. U. S. high schools, the Commission on Human Relations later found, which receive Youth at the age when the sex problem is most insistent, have made slight progress in the past 17 years toward providing this information. In a survey by the U. S. Public Health Service and American Social Hygiene Association in 1920, only 8% of the nation's high schools reported...