Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discrimination against Negro hostesses in Boston canteens was discussed by ex-president Guild of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at a meeting of the Wendell Phillips Club of the A. Y. D. (American Youth for Democracy) last Friday at 8 o'clock...
...Wendell Phillips Club, long a leading liberal organization, draws most of its members from Harvard, although it includes students at Radcliffe, M. I. T., and Northeastern. Since its recent affiliation with the A. Y. D., the national antifascist youth movement, it has circulated petitions endorsing the Lynch-Dickstein Bill to restrict racial and religious propaganda from the mails and has backed the program drawn up by Professor Gordon W. Allport, head of the Psychology Department, to fight race prejudice...
Died. Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, 83, eminent Canadian poet, knighted in 1935 for literary achievements; of a heart ailment; one month after his marriage to 33-year-old radio operator Joan Montgomery; in Toronto. In his youth he toughened his body on the woodland trails of his native New Brunswick, whose forests and streams he exalted in poetry. A World War I veteran, he left behind 67 volumes of verse, fiction, biography, history, including such prose works as The Kindred of the Wild, The Feet of the Furtive, Wisdom of the Wilderness...
Leonardo was a youth of great personal charm and extraordinary physical beauty which he paraded without reserve in the streets of Florence. Contemporaries picture him wearing a curly blond beard and walking in a short pink tunic while everyone else wore cloaks. He was proud to the point of arrogance, fastidious to the point of inhumanity. Evidence, including anonymous accusations, strongly suggests that Leonardo was a homosexual. Wrote the late Sigmund Freud in his Leonardo da Vinci: "In a period where there was a constant struggle between riotous licentiousness and gloomy asceticism, Leonardo presented an example of cool sexual rejection...
...Court found that Breasts of Youth contained some moisture, common salt, magnesium and an unidentified ovarian substance. Dr. Willard O. Thompson, associate professor of medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, testified: "No food I know of will act on the breasts alone or develop them...