Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rotary Reconstructed. To get a line on Schireson, the Record sent a patient to consult him about making her neck prettier. She found a "heavyset man, sixtyish in appearance, dressed in youthful tweeds. His ready smile revealed excellent bridge-work." He said that a neck treatment would merely give her "a perfect neck, a throat of vibrant youth, topped by an aged face." She should have "a complete rotary reconstruction" to make her face as beautiful as her eyes. "Your eyes alone," said Schireson, "would be the dream of any plastic surgeon...
...people in southern Italy . . . are definitely opposed to the Badoglio Government. . . . There is a continual slowdown in all work. . . . Officials appointed by us have been replaced with Fascists, and some removed by us for Fascist views have been reinstated. There is still graft, resulting in looting of food." Fascist youth organizations have reappeared under new names. Italians have come to distrust their liberators. The Allies seem to be losing both prestige and popularity...
Equal Hasps. "Beachcomber" uses the hasp* situation as a peg for the blithe puncturing of postwar planners, youth groups, aged conservatives, bureaucratic red tape, military dignity (a favorite character is "Captain Foulenough"), political coalitions (the Independent National Anti-Coupon Pro-Caucus Semi-Conservatives) and many matters British. Thus...
...Master Tony Colt. But a Woman's Defence League candidate has stepped in, to demand equal hasps for wives, in order to end the serfdom of married women. This will probably have no effect on the election, as nobody knows what it means. . . . But everyone is rallying to youth. 'Experience isn't everything,' said Master Colt's nurse yesterday. 'Nor is inexperience,' replied Mr. Fogge's nurse...
...assistant curate (at ?20 a year), Cyril Garbett went to the combined vicarage of Portsmouth and Southsea, which, under the name of Portsea, was the biggest vicarage in England. The shy, reserved youth had exchanged the quiet of the cloud-shadowed chalk downs for some of the toughest waterfront slums in Britain. As quietly and systematically as he had dug in the vicarage garden, young Cyril Garbett dug into the causes of slums and poverty, turned up the disturbing idea that no matter how much help the churches' spiritual program and social services may give, the roots of most...