Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathetic U.S. correspondents diagnosed the need as fewer, not more, restrictions. Melbourne takes in its sidewalks after 8 p.m. Only a handful of one-armed eating joints stay open. No drinks are sold. There is no place to spend the evening with a girl in the way of U.S. youth. Sundays are even worse. One vaudeville house and one movie, after soldier protests, were allowed to keep running, but both have enormous queues. Result: U.S. soldiers patronize "sly grog shops" (speakeasies), are victimized by cabbies who know a place where . . . and take their folk games where they find them...
...Real Ride. The one thing everybody knows about Paul Revere is his ride. But Biographer Forbes can only nod affectionately towards Longfellow's ballad. The Paul Revere who roused the Middlesex village and farms was no hotheaded youth, but a stocky family man of 40. Neither did he gallop in wild anapest down the road to Lexington. The lanterns that were hung in Christ's Church steeple ("one if by land, two if by sea") were not hung for Paul Revere. He had helped put them there. His ride was a cool, businesslike night's work...
...clock: Opening session of the Seminar on Youth Standards in War-time...
Also on the program will be Miss Sprague of the Boston Blood Donors Center, and Elliott Jaques M. D., Assistant in Psychology and Chairman of the youth auxiliary of the Boston Committee on Public Safety. As the head of the Youth for Victory Council, Dr. Jaques is well qualified to discuss student opportunities for war service. Robert L. Work of the Hospital Orderlies Service will expand on the opportunities for activity with that group...
...Seminar on Youth Standards in Wartime-opening session...