Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading a book of Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back & forth on his bench. (Unimpressed, his U.S. doctor advised him to keep rocking.) The only display of what the Germans call Galgenhumor (humor of the gallows) came from ex-Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach. Said he, as he was served dinner in his cell: "If the victuals continue to get better, they'll be serving us steak by the time they hang...
Last week Dictator Trujillo was very much in the news. Within the
fortnight, scathing criticism from far & wide had pointed up the
anachronism: <]f In Caracas, Provisional President Romulo Betancourt
announced that Venezuela would not recognize Trujillo and his
"assassins of liberty."
...taken to be moral slobs, mental deficients, and fools; and if Europeans now seek to milk us, we have only "Our Boys" to blame. It will take years to repair the widespread distrust of the U.S. produced, not by bombs or diplomatic deals, but by our half-educated, doltish youth...
...When a youth reaches 24 he never admits it; he is always...
...Minors. André Lhôte, 60-year-old modern, whose cautious cubism has been largely overshadowed by his giant contemporaries, showed a carefully composed Bordeaux in My Youth, which seemed real without being at all realistic...