Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...age, the percentage of people who read, intelligently and patronize the best literature remains about the same. The number who buy books varies widely. In the light of this anomaly, the rejoicings of the publishers Tuesday, at the convention of their National Association, is not conclusive in the examination of America's culture. They felt, however, that the millennium is approaching, and took for their keynote the familiar word "prosperity", the prosperity that leads people to buy books if it does not make them read. The woman who in Addison's day filled her library with the worthwhile books done...
...age when the weaker sex so universally expresses admiration of the "cave man" while at the same time upholding that great American slogan, "It's off, because it's out," the problem is an alarming one. The question as to whether the tea-sipping students of Radcliffe, Sargent, and Miss Leslie's should abandon, as they threaten to do, the debated territory of the fashionable tea shoppe to their enemies, the hairy-legged racquetmen, offers possibilities of stone throwing. The female crusader against legs laments a lack of modesty; and the male defendant retorts that "people who wear sheer hose...
...years the ordinary newspaper is crumbled, cracked, useless with age, even if unthumbed. Rag paper issues will last indefinitely, longer than any paper substance except parchment. A year ago Adolph S. Ochs's New York Times, leader, in many aspects, of all the journals of the land, conceived the rag paper notion and prints a limited supply each day. (See p. 7.) The Patterson-McCormick Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," felt called upon to offer a similar service to millionaire subscribers and posterity...
Like famed Chauncey Mitchell Depew, another survivor of a fibrous generation of railroad men, Marvin Hughitt was bothered by newsmongers because he continued to go to his office every day, despite the fact that he had reached an age never attained by less sturdy toilers. When, recently, he was asked by a coy cub reporter what advice he had to give the younger generation, Marvin Hughitt took thought for a moment. Then he replied: "Why, none...
...Gamaliel Bradford, wishing to preserve the heroic figure of the evangelist, asks a few questions in return. Since D. L. Moody is no longer alive to answer the questions, Author Bradford.must supply his own replies. A wise and searching biographer, he explains very credibly a person who, in an age of great preachers, Was perhaps the tallest and most mighty among them...