Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factories where the conveyor-belt system is in operation. The factory tempo is somewhat slower than in the United States. About a quarter of the workers in all factories we visited were women who appeared to be doing exactly the same kind of work as men. The youth of the Soviet workers and engineers and managers was striking. Laboratories are well developed everywhere. My eye was struck by the manner in which each factory is training its engineers in the factory itself...
...conduct of the pupils is to be placed a strict and conscientious application of discipline. ... In the personal record there will be entered for the entire duration of his studies the marks of the pupil for every quarter, his prizes and his punishments. ... A special apparatus of Communist Youth organizers is to be installed for the surveillance of the pupil inside and outside of school. They are to watch over the morality and the state of mind of the pupils. . . . Establish a single form of dress for pupils of the primary, semi-secondary, and secondary schools, this uniform...
...richest men in Chicago and has helped its Symphony for 30 years. Claire Dux soloed with the Chicago Symphony in 1935. Last week she sang with the Symphony again. While Packer Swift watched anxiously from his box, Dux undertook the Strauss and Mozart she has loved since youth. Though her voice has lost freshness and size, she treated every phase with marvelous control. When, later in the week, Dux repeated her concert, she caused the Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy to exclaim of Strauss's Morgen: "So it happened again, the recurrent miracle of sublimated song that...
...that only Roger's opportune horseback arrival could possibly save her life. In spite of valiant effort by a harassed cast, the dialog is of the prithee and methinks kind and never gets the strophe of real human talk. MacMurray, heretofore a trade emblem of flip 20th-century youth, invents a kind of brogue which fails to transport him back two centuries and a half. Best shots: careful and authentic reproductions of colonial candle-dripping, house-raising parties, medical methods...
RORY AND BRAN-Lord Dunsany-Putnam ($2.50). Adventures of a half-wit youth and his dog in the pixillated Irish countryside; in the same vein but not the same class as James Stephens' Crock of GoId...