Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great God!' I exclaimed in stupefaction, 'I should never have thought that. How times have changed! Women of that age used to wear grandmothers' bonnets. Today it seems they play tennis like young girls...
...picture. You are too preoccupied with physical aspects of Muni as Chibou leaning on Muni as Napoleon to be concerned with the sentiments involved. Once all the wax Munis come to life in a dream and tell sleeping Caretaker Muni how to straighten out the interrupted romance of two young people who used to meet in the gallery. A lot of film is wasted on this romance. Dana Burnet's dialog is not convincing. Best shot: Chibou finding out the truth about Napoleon...
Parisians and their police were baffled last week by an offense little short of criminal but against which there is no Paris law. One evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel...
...Gladys Swarthout, young and comely Kansas City mezzo-soprano, donned drab grey for her Metropolitan debut, smeared her face with ash-colored chalk, sang the role of the blind mother in La Gioconda. Her acting, typically operatic, was credible. Her voice, though sometimes unsteady, was agreeable...
...Many of the great men the university will bring forth are now young men on their way," said Mr. Swift last week while discussing what he and Barber Bratfish and all other good Chicago University men had most in mind?the induction of Chicago's new president, the youngest big- university president in the land...