Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry, short, stocky, pink-eared Norman Tokar, 19, has long played a bit part in the script, long understudied Ezra, sounds enough like him to be his twin. He has played small stage roles in Delicate Story, Lamented Life of Riley, Days of Our Youth, is currently featured in the subway circuit Sailor Beware. He also writes and sells gangster scripts bristling with argot. Knowing the script depends on Henry, Norman does his best to be a businesslike copy of Ezra. House Jameson, who plays Father Aldrich, coaches the new Henry out from behind every eight ball. It is worth...
Washington's last student conference -the leftist American Youth Congress, sponsored, like many another, by Eleanor Roosevelt - met two years ago on the White House lawn to boo a speech by the President. It applauded John L. Lewis and the Russian invasion of Finland...
Declared one delegate, who had escaped from Germany in 1933, fought with the French in 1940, again escaped from a Nazi concentration camp: "You cannot have just a youth organization. You need older people to guide it. Politics is a strange thing, but it is practical. Here there is too much vagueness. I do not mean this Assembly is not worth while. It may, and I think will, sow a seed. But it will be a small seed...
Said Somervell: "Let us be realistic. Every able-bodied boy is destined at the appointed age for the armed services. It is the job of the schools and colleges to provide the opportunity for every youth to equip himself for a place in winning the war. You must do this regardless of cost, time, inconvenience, the temporary sidetracking of nonwar objectives, or even the temporary scrapping of peacetime courses. . . . Every classroom is a citadel...
...like yours indicating to the public that Congress is trying to ride them. God knows we are not big enough to ride your outfit. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world." Later, the Senator philosophized for the record on such far-flung subjects as education of youth, property rights v. the human rights of men in the draft, social progress as demonstrated by the funnies and society pages. By noon of the second day Farish had reached page five...