Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quill, silverpoint, chalk, charcoal, pencil. His "Old Masters" range from an unknown Egyptian artist's outline drawing of Rameses IV to a 18th Century sleeping figure by Toulouse-Lautrec. Along the way are such choice items as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's gracious chalk masterpiece Head of a Youth (see cut), and Edouard Manet's brush sketch for his great painting Olympia...
When the war began, Olga Dedier was a dark-haired girl with a medical degree and a passion for skiing. She worked in Belgrade's anti-Fascist youth movement, often made flapjacks for her journalist husband Vladimir, who learned to like them in America. In the war's first year she bore a daughter, Militsa...
Five years later Burns and a youth named Bern rented a second-floor loft and opened BB's College of Dancing. They got together a four-piece band so noisy that it had to play near an open window to let the bulk of the syncopation blast into the street. This also served as ballyhoo. The boys got some of their customers by going to Ellis Island and approaching immigrants just off the boats. The sales talk: one of the first requisites of U.S. citizenship was a $5 course of dancing lessons...
...Service Men's Christian League represents Protestantism, but no one Church. Its 1,012 units, with 100,000 members, organized wherever U.S. troops are stationed, provide a substitute for home-town church youth groups. Under the chaplain's guidance, League members hold Bible classes, prayer meetings, discussion groups, debate many a religious and postwar problem...
Once in a while the long arm of the law reached out to hold up a slipping brassiere strap and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded following of beardless youth and balded age fall away as did the Millerites. Here, with a bottle of Scotch and large eigars, fresh-from-prep-school Yardlings matched their manliness against each other. Crimson CRIMSON candidates pushed into backstage interviews. Roverent Yale men dropped in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace...