Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since then they have been international stars; but with advancing age their popularity has waned in the U. S. and waxed in Europe. Their recently built and extravagantly sumptuous home in Paris created a furore with its immense rooms so arranged that the colors of the walls & ceilings can be changed at will...
...crops fail, if prices go too high or too low, if men gamble or violate some of the Commandments, if alcohol is abused, if morals become loose" --we go to Congress for a law. "The result is more and more to transform the American system of government from its age-old purpose of protecting life, liberty, and property into a scheme for social control and the regulation of personal conduct and personal relations...
...mother died when he was three years old, and he went to his mother's people on the New Reservation, sixty miles west of Topeka. At the age of nine he turns up in the white man's end of Kansas as a jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...
...age of twenty-one he passed his bar examinations, and in three years he was county attorney of Shawnee County. Prohibition, at this time, was three years old in Kansas and far from a success. Curtis went at its enforcement with the same energy that had brought him under the wire first in more than one county sweepstakes...
...turn round. His is usually the conciliation which finds a basis for agreement. He is an active man, tireless, industrious, and devoted to the routine of his office--a man still young at sixty-seven, stockily built, sturdy, with more spring to his step than most men half his age, and reported by one of the most competent newspaper men in Washington to be the best poker player in either House of Congress. He is everybody's friend. His colleagues call him Charlie. His constituents swear by him as they would swear by a trusted Ford or a well-tried...