Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...notable glamor boy during the Wilson Administration. The lush Nita Naldi, whose heroic scale bust was a feature of Rudolph Valentino's Blood and Sand, gave a smoldering recital of Kipling's The Vampire. Shimmy-shaking Gilda Gray didn't attempt the racking vibrations of her youth, but heaved and rolled through a less exacting danse du ventre...
Cadden referred to the Tunney group by saying that "it has a beautiful office in Radio City, but is in no way representative of youth, and never has had any support from them. As for McArthur, I think the students will prove themselves Americans without any help from Mayor Hague...
Answering the charges hurled at him and at the National Conference for Democracy in Education, Joseph Cadden, executive secretary of the American Youth Congress, denied that he has any connection with the Communistic Party, and that the conference is in any way sponsored by "Reds." The attacks came from two sides: the National Foundation of American Youth, and F. Stephen McArthur, a student at the John Marshall College in Jersey City...
...said yesterday that the meeting is a "new and subtle attempt of the Junior Fifth Column in America to re-establish its influence among students." Murray Plavner, general director of the National Foundation, claimed that the delegates will be hand-picked by the A. Y. C., and accused several youth leaders, including Jack McMichael chairman of the A. Y. C., and Cadden, of being dictated to by Moscow...
Edward Ames '42, president of the H. L. U., when asked to comment last night, attacked Plavner. "Murray Plavner, Gene Tunney, and their National Foundation for Youth," he said, "spend their time attacking the Youth Congress. I, too, have often criticized the Youth Congress, and I have done it to their faces, not only to the press. Furthermore, I have always put forward an alternative program, which I believe is better than their's, while Plavner has done nothing but call names and criticize...