Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past we always had a soft place in our heart for you. However, today we fear that you, like the remainder of American youth, are controlled by the President, and perhaps tomorrow will see fine American youth marching into battle in defense of Britain...
Last week the world's biggest dance hall opened in Manhattan and thousands of the jitterbug youth of the Melting Pot jounced, flung and stomped themselves into possession of it. The hall was Manhattan's famous Madison Square Garden, turned into a summer Dance Carnival at a cost of $100,000 by Showman Monte Proser...
What Johnny Johnson wants to bring home to U.S. youth today is that it takes no supermen to fill these jobs. For flying officers the physical examination is tough, but it takes no crack athlete to pass it. The educational requirement, two years of college, can be met by passing a written examination, and last week the Air Corps eased up on its requirements. As if he hadn't troubles enough already, last week Johnny Johnson got another problem to chew. Announced by bald Assistant Secretary of War for Air Bob Lovett was a program for training...
...began to march in the opposite direction. His sign read: "We Americans Protest Communists Picketing the White House." He was Abe Tikotsky, an electrical worker, once of Springfield, Ill., with a lugubrious voice and sore feet. He said: "These dopes ain't got no sense. . . ."A clean-cut youth from South Dakota, now working in the War Department, stopped by and said: "That's a wonderful thing you're doing, fella." "Fine," said Abe. "would you mind standing in for me a minute?" "Not at all," said the clean-cut youth, and took the sign. Abe crossed...
...been running a poor third in the re-pressing race. This has been due to the company's emphasis on novelties like Joe Daniels's Hot Shots and popular favorites like Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, at the expense of weaker selling jazz. Then too, Decca's comparative youth prevented it from recording Beiderbecke, Armstrong, Bessic Smith and others who were in their prime before the New Deal. I hold no brief for pre-Repeal jazz. It's like pre-Repeal liquor--I can't swallow a lot of it. But some of it is undoubtedly the best music...