Word: youths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Charles Augustus Lindbergh entered the reception hall. The crowd of stiffly dressed, excited diplomats caught their breaths as President Miguel Paz Barahona motioned him to the presidential chair. The U. S. youth, unsurprised, sat gravely down. Speeches. Hondurans coined for him a new nickname, "The Marvel Child." He was presented with a wafer thin watch hidden inside a U. S. $20 gold piece. In the street an unidentified citizen rushed excitedly through his escort, seized him firmly; lifted him high; screaming "The greatest man on earth." Wnen native maidens rushed forward at Toncontin Field the U. S. youth...
...Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel. Juan Ponce de Leon was appointed by Columbus the Lieut. Governor of "Hispaniola" (Haiti) and from there captured the island of Porto Rico, believing it to abound in gold. Thence, he set out to discover the present island of Bimini, supposed to contain the "Fountain of Youth," but missed Bimini and discovered a bogus spring in Florida...
...child, he studiously attended the strict Christian Brothers' schools in Dublin. A boy, he clerked over groceries. A youth, he espoused the passionate and patriotic doctrines of Sinn Fein. A man, he combined steady, profitable attention to business with such tireless subversion against the British that in 1916 he was sentenced to death, and only escaped under the general amnesty...
...pettiness of one criticism and removed the basis for the other, Agnes Maude Royden was not reinvited to speak in Chicago or Boston, where the women felt that "Miss Royden . . . stood for certain principles which our organization did not care to sponsor ... it might do harm to our youth.'' Detroit women characterized the criticism of Miss Royden as "absurd," but in Philadelphia, after reading the reports of her arrival, women's clubs retracted their invitations. Some women spoke sharply of "Hoyden Royden"; others, baffled by her direct and vigorous speech, took refuge in expressions of fluffy indignation...
...again, we argue that the modern youth is no worse than the youth of a century or half a century ago. From Bill's report, it would seem that the modern so-called flaming youth keeps the flames under control better than the modern youth of days gone by. Purdue Exponent...