Word: youths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish companion and adviser of the King. His Majesty feels that his "sacrifice" in not marrying his Mrs. Simpson No. 1 is one which leaves all Rumania under a debt of gratitude to the Throne. In holding this opinion King Carol glosses over or forgets that in his youth he took a morganatic wife, Mme Zizi Lambrino, put her aside to marry Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, who is the mother of Rumanian Crown Prince Mihai, and not only was divorced but actually abdicated as Crown Prince prior to his triumphal restoration as King (TIME, June 16, 1930). This...
...long as the world has been turning, dissatisfied thinkers--philosophers we term them--have envisioned Utopias, Paradise, Fountains of Youth like Hilton's "Shangri-la". The Utopia of the young Englishman is situated obscurely beyond the last bit of civilization amid the white mountains of Tibet. To this impossible place is brought kidnapped Robert Conway, England's Eden-to-be. The High Llama, a French priest who stumbled upon Shangri-la in 1713 and claims to be over 200 years, old, informs Conway that he is to guard like a monk of the Middle Ages the treasures of the world...
...constantly aware of the poetic nature of its subject. We realize, possibly, that Marie Bashkirtseff was a genius, that her works should have their place in the British Museum, the Musee de Luxembourg, and the Nice Museum. For one who has not read the Bashkirtseff Diaries, "Fountains of Youth" presents a tantalizing attraction. For the reader who has, Miss Creston offers perhaps a slightly new interpretation of the bare facts. She flavors the words of the young artist with a beauty and poetry of her own which tend to enhance the value of the original...
...Richard Lapiere-Harper ($2.50). Laid in 19th Century China, the quiet but well written story of a talented youth whose efforts to become a scholar are sacrificed to the customs of family worship...
...Henry Pennypacker 1933 1910 Headmaster Boston Latin School 1920 Chairman Committee on Admissions 1920 Harvard College 1933 Wise and Strong Friend and Lover of Youth...