Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks. None of the three has as yet accepted. In its first meeting the League decided to distribute an open letter disclosing its cause and telling of its initial speaker. The club also excluded from membership any person who is enrolled with the Harvard Liberal Union or the American Youth for Democracy...
...personal matter, an entirely personal matter. But he did plan to see Winston Churchill again. And soon. He smiled and spelled out soon. A reporter asked him about the biggest dope-story of the week: that he favored compulsory peacetime conscription. The President leaned back, talked thoughtfully about American youth (see col. 3). Jovially he suggested that the reporters near his desk could use some exercise themselves. He was chuckling as the conference ended...
...There will be no money reparations. War criminals will be punished by methods not yet agreed upon, but vengeance will not be visited upon all Germans. The Allies will provide medicine, clothing, food and a big program of re-education for Nazi youth...
...gnawing self-doubt" and the need to test his strength that he abstained from liquids until his tongue turned black. Sometimes he lay in bed, "filled with mortification . . . contemplating the ugli ness of the name Hopkins"-a loathing from which he never recovered. "Tuncks is a good name," the youth wrote in his diary; "Gerard Manley Tuncks...
Janie's father (Edward Arnold), who publishes the town paper, writes a blast about youth's pitfalls, but while his wife (Ann Harding) and his best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy...