Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Henry Higgins, 51, who was elected Governor of Rhode Island in 1906 at the age of 31; at Pawtucket, R. I; of heart disease. He had been active the day before in his law office and on the golf links; had planned to attend the Tunney-Dempsey fight...
...White House, or else wait for two years. Said Mr. Gilbert: "John Quincy Adams, by retiring from the Presidency to become a member of the House of Representatives, established a precedent which the public has always wished to see followed. So whenever a President retires at a suitable age there is always talk of his entering Congress. The House of Representatives is not as attractive to public-men today as it was in the younger Adams's day, so it is the Senate where gossip places ex-Presi-dents. The difficulty is that there never is a vacancy...
...person. When he avoided college he probably spared himself many miseries. Though he weighs only 125 pounds, his appetite is large . . . steak and lamb chops for breakfast. He sleeps long and soundly. Despite his father's prominence, he is so carefully unobtrusive that he might have reached his present age without attracting more than statistical notice, were it not for his precipitous enthusiasms and precocious successes...
...Age of Chemistry. The president, Dr. George David Rosen-garten of Philadelphia, begged that the present period of history be called the Age of Chemistry instead of the Iron Age, Steel Age, Motor Age, Mechanical Age or any other Age. He rehearsed familiar benedictions from chemistry, predicted further benedictions, such as the total eradication of disease...
...short biography, a picture. Novelist Smith obliged. He let his beard grow Conrad length, posed before the camera with tortured brow, eyes popping with Muscovite anguish, his esthetically agonized face pressed against gentle fingers. He explained he was born in Moscow, came to the U. S. at the age of 10 with his parents, settled in Chicago, suffered from tuberculosis, sought health in the South Sea Islands, retreated into Southern California...