Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl stood before an elderly clergyman in an 18th-Century, bomb-damaged Berlin church. The girl, blonde, in her late 'teens, was well dressed, well fed, carefully made up. She spoke for the two: "Will you marry us?" The silent youth, in his early twenties, looked better fed than most Germans, although his blue suit did not fit him well. The girl readily produced her identification papers, but he said: "I lost mine in the bombing . . . she can vouch...
...beck youth Mann (now 70) recalls a Germany which, while pretending to universalism, actually lived in "arrogant provincialism . . . the modern nationalistic form, of the old German world-seclusiveness and melancholy world-unfitness . . . cosmopolitanism in a nightcap...
...document, U.S. moviemen, including Commander Ray Kellogg and Lieutenant Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg, tracked down film which was hidden in cellars, locked in vaults and plastered in farmhouse walls throughout Europe. The result is a pretty full record of the little group of Nazi orators from bustling youth to beribboned...
...casting of Ingrid Bergman in the role of a sister superior also presents unsolved problems. Her youth, beauty, and "Minnesota" accent all interfere with her portrayal of a role more obviously designed for Ethel Barrymore or Dame May Whitty...
When Rexford Guy Tugwell was a youth of 24, he wrote these Whitmanesque lines in a windy piece of free verse. America paid little attention. At Columbia University the regents sometimes seemed to resent Professor Tugwell's attempts to remake that small corner of the U.S. But he won the admiration of his next-door neighbor, Professor Raymond Moley, and packed off to Washington with him in 1933, to become one of Franklin Roosevelt's first brain-trusters. Disfavor, as it must to all favorites, came to blunt Rex Tugwell; he was shipped off to Puerto Rico, where...