Word: youthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress, and Martin Dies, never a piker, was ready to ask this time for a $1,000,000 appropriation. To earn his million, Dies produced a bigger show than ever. From Los Angeles to Chicago his agents brought Heinrich Peter Fassbender, alias Harry Smith, 23, a dark, smiling youth who claimed to have worked as a Gestapo agent for five years in Belgium, Spain and the U. S. Young Alien Fassbender, said Dies, was "sensational" in secret hearings...
...Japanese. In his character were the seeds of present-day Japan. A story is told that one day in his youth in Paris he was drinking in a bistro. Spirits ran high. Accidentally he broke a window. A French waiter grew angry and told him to pay up. Kimmochi Saionji, gentleman of Japan, broke several more windows in the place, paid for them all. Then he haughtily commanded the waiter to wrap up the pieces of glass in a package, took the package under his arm and stalked out, head high...
Later the brash Colonel showed up as the head of a formidable outfit which looked much like Hitler's Elite Guard-the Japan Youth Party, claiming 100,000 ardent members. Its flag, a white sun against a red ball, symbolized "bloodred patriotism under a white-hot sun." The commander of this private army boasted: "Watch me, Hashimoto. I am no man to sit still and talk...
...Firstly, this statement manifestly contradicts the bulk of Nazi literature, which during the last eight years with unparalleled power and ingenuity has attacked religion and the Catholic Church. Secondly, if National Socialism is a Christian movement, then how is it explained that in 1933 nearly all the Catholic youth in Germany was being taught in Catholic schools, whereas now these schools are closed...
...history and technique of sculpture, 2) plaster casts and bronzes under blue and green spotlights, 3) in a basement auditorium, as a sideshow (35?), a bevy of vacant-eyed, open-mouthed ballet dancers. The premiere ballerina, a half-clad blonde named Missouri, swooned in the arms of a sweating youth named Mississippi. They were giving a choreographic version of a famed group of statues: Carl Milles' fountain The Meeting of the Waters, whose huge, wriggling nudes still cause bluenoses to avert their eyes when crossing Aloe Plaza in St. Louis (TIME...