Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...super-stolid North Germany, people's nerves seemed to be standing the blackout strain of bumps and boredom fairly well. A. Hitler, an Austrian by birth who spent his youth in Vienna, cheered up the former Austrian capital by putting it back on a basis of bright lights and tuneful night life. The ban on dancing was lifted, Vienna cabarets sprang to life, the street lights were on and last week the Viennese, incorrigibly light-hearted and easygoing, even tore from their windowpanes the dark paper pasted on when the Führer ordered blackouts...
...agencies that helped pay the bill for Louisianians' fun was the National Youth Administration, which gave 525 L. S. U. students up to $25 a month. The man who handed out this dole was George C. Heidelberg, 60, supervisor of student employment, uncle of the owner of the Heidelberg Hotel, where Huey Long used to live. One day two months ago George Heidelberg hailed a cabdriver, told him to drive to a saloon. Said he: "I'll have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg...
...Seminary of St. Mary's of the Lake in Mundelein, Ill., late last Sunday afternoon, two cassocked churchmen worked over the draft of a speech. One was Most Rev. Bernard James Sheil, Auxiliary bishop of Chicago, good friend of labor, good friend of youth, founder of the Catholic Youth Organization. The other was the godfather of the town, His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, great liberal of the Church, great builder and money-raiser for the sprawling archdiocese he had headed for nearly a quarter of a century. The speech over which they worked...
...Schooling makes youth discontented: 40% of U. S. youths, says John Chamberlain, are out of school and jobless, growing "ugly and morose...
...cacophony as the class of 1943 was born, an ominous rumble came from college presidents. Looking gravely upon their fresh-faced flocks, assembled in chapels and halls, the presidents welcomed them with words of doom. Instead of calling their students "heirs to the heritage of civilization," the presidents counseled youth to prepare to salvage what was left of civilization after World War II. Typical excerpts...