Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down Thrice. Peter's second son became the dogmatic, determined state-maker, Alexander I, first king of the Yugoslavs. In his youth, while a student at St. Petersburg, he fell in love with Tatiana, one of the Czar's daughters, who, along with her parents, was murdered by the Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg. All his life Alexander was obsessed by fear and hatred of the Red Russians; they called Yugoslavia "the graveyard of Communists." When Alexander was assassinated at Marseilles in 1934, his son Peter, a shy, eleven-year-old who dreamed of being a radio mechanic, wept...
...made a Broadway reputation by writing sexy plays, is married; the girl, a restless young thing in "any large American city," is engaged. There is no overpowering amorous feeling on either side. She reaches out romantically toward glamor and sophistication. He rather ruefully responds to her because she symbolizes youth...
...youth, as a coal miner in Oklahoma, handsome, irascible Major General Patrick Jay Hurley once killed a fractious mule by bashing its head with a two-by-four. Last week Pat Hurley, his Irish blood boiling, flailed an indecisive State Department and killed an official attitude...
...fighting grew fiercer in Java last week. Japanese soldiers helped the British in a sharp action at Semarang in central Java. U.S.-made Sherman tanks helped British Indian troops finally clear most of Surabaya. Noisy, effective Indonesian radio stations cried to the youth of the Indies to rise and join their jungle columns. At week's end the British sped Mosquito-borne rockets into two radio stations...
...wife's 20-franc (40^) weekly will be no child of Marie-Claire. Said Mme. Lazareff: "Something has happened in between. The youth in France are much less fluffy. The chichi is passe...