Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of his Commonwealth. For Governor Fuller, rich today, was born poor; is self-made; eats luncheons at Thompson's in preference to dining at the Copley Plaza, the Touraine, the Statler. Born 49 years ago in Maiden (suburb of Boston), Governor Fuller left school at the age of 14, taking a job in a rubber factory to help support his widowed mother. At 17 he went into business for himself, opened a bicycle repair shop. On Saturday afternoons he rode in bicycle races, became Junior Champion of the vicinity, added thus to his fame, his income...
Rascoe-Collins. The new owner-editors of the Bookman promise a magazine that will be enlarged to include "general ideas and culture." Burton Rascoe is not new on the U. S. literary scene. Born in Kentucky, he began to read Socrates and Kant at the age of 12. He was a reporter before becoming book critic for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Tribune. In 1924, the Bookman said of him: "As a human being, he possesses not even rudimentary principles; and as a critic he hasn't any esthetic standards." The Bookman accused him of commercialism, credited...
...General Motors Corp. and lately a profiting speculator in Wall Street, last week spent $21,000 to advertise in 48 newspapers in 29 cities, and thus gain presumably 8,800,000 readers of the new leaf he is turning industrially as well as financially. At 65 years of age he intends to duplicate General Motors -by means of Consolidated Motors Inc., which he has just had incorporated in Delaware. And "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the keystone of the great General Motors," he intends to use the new Star Six as the sill...
...this is not remarkable. Since the Provincetown Playhouse, where Rapid Transit is presented, is a tiny place, it is remarkable that the production actually came off. For it employs a cast of almost 70 persons, all racing about in the throes of excitement and confusion incidental to this iron age. The furor is the result of bungling man's efforts to adjust his life, political organization, education, to the whizzing circle of accelerating machine civilization. The satire seeks to prove 1) That man is too busy being stimulated by split-second meals, red-hot tabloids and undressed dramatics to enjoy...
...Iowa, where his family had gone in wagons, he felt the vast age and oneness of life. It amused him to say that since his direct ancestors numbered millions 30 generations ago, therefore he was descended from the entire English-speaking race. Running up his family tree eight branches he would drop down two and land on Benjamin Franklin, "the bourgeois." The Nile, he would say, is an upstart compared to the Mississippi. Five-toed little Eohippus lived for him in his farm horse, Daisy...