Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King William IV (1765-1837) was a genial, well-meaning but rather muddle-some man whose niece, Victoria, succeeded him on the throne of England. Third son of George III, he had no great expectation during his youth of becoming England's monarch. As the Duke of Clarence, he bestowed his ardors on a Mrs. Jordan, an actress, to whom he was faithful for many years and who bore him twelve children. At Teddington, not far from London, he used for his extraordinary menage a charming and spacious 18th Century brick palace. When the death of his niece, Princess...
Many U. S. periodicals are published for adults and a few for children, but hardly any specifically address the in-between group called Youth. Reason: Youth likes to be treated as if it were grownup. Last week, however, there appeared on U. S. newsstands a new magazine called Youth Today, designed to take advantage of Youth's depression-born self-consciousness...
...Youth Today, edited by Newspaperman Harry Miller, 38, father of three children, is like Reader's Digest. It condenses from grownups' newspapers and magazines articles that are believed to be particularly interesting to youth. Youth Today also will pick a boy and a girl of the month. Girl of the Month for October: Alma Sheppard, 12, of Hanover, Pa., who drove her father's trotter to three world's harness racing records. Boy of the Month: Edward Higgins, 11, of Pueblo, Colo. Born without arms, Edward Higgins can sew on buttons with his toes...
Moustaches are the latest vogue for Harvard men, according to that arbiter of Cambridge fashions, the Boston Post. In an article entitled "Harvard Turns to Whiskers" published yesterday, the Post discloses that" . . . blond youth at Harvard is going in for the Melvyn Douglas trim...
...triumph is so complete it almost destroys them. Nan becomes the Duchess of Tintagel, discovers that she does not love her husband, falls in love with a young widower, calls her former governess for help. But in the heady sequence of brilliant marriages, Miss Testvalley has also recovered her youth, is making a brilliant marriage herself. At this point The Buccaneers breaks off. Mrs. Wharton's notes suggest that the governess was to sacrifice her own future to help Nan escape. That ending, however, would create almost as many difficulties as it would solve...