Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letters; when he was glum she cheered him. "Old Bob" died. His wife was left with his spirit, his political faith, his four children. The oldest, Robert M. Jr., went into the Senate. He has his father's chubby face; he serves with insurgent distinction, a mere child (age 30) among Senators. Son Philip, 29, is District Attorney in his home county. He has his father's shock of hair; he is a fiery orator. Last month he became the proud father of Robert Marion LaFollette III. Daughter Fola, once a suffragette, then a talented actress who played...
...come around from 57th St. to interrogate and dispute upon the writings of Spinoza, the Jew of Amsterdam; of morbid Schopenhauer, neurotic Nietzsche, recondite Kant. Emanuel was regarded by himself and his family, as a mental prodigy. He had made public orations in the Liberty Loan drives at the age of 10. He had finished high school at 16 and, after a nervous breakdown, read long and late at philosophy and psychology, screwed up in a corner with his scrawny shoulders hunched, his lean hooked nose thrust into a book. Mr. Silberstein, a tailor, and his wife, would listen...
...keynote of the conference was to be "the synthetic age," when man will not have to go beyond the chemical laboratory for his material needs, compounding them of the main life-supporting chemical elements. Advance apostles of this curious era had been propounding their visions at the Williamstown Institute of Politics, where President James F. Norris of the Society warned sentimentalists that, along with all other human activities, wars were going to be conducted with increased laboratory efficiency, employing poison gases and other destructive chemicals. Other speakers-not without opposition-discounted humanity's programs for conserving natural resources such...
...Calvin Coolidge, refuse to "recognize" the 139 million Soviet Russians over whom Joseph Stalin has reared himself a despot. M. Stalin ("Mr. Steel") exerts, simply as Secretary of the Communist Party, a political "boss power" prodigious and all pervasive. A cobbler's son whose actual name and age are doubtful, "Mr. Steel," was born in the remote Transcaucasian land of Vras-tan, Gruzia or Georgia.* Amid the purging flames of revolution, the great Dictator Lenin tested and tempered the Georgian's metal, gave him the prophetic name of Stalin, installed him in the office which he has made...
...Louisiana is of all States perhaps the most detached and self-concerned, and just as New Orleans concentrates the independent-mindedness that makes this so, just so does Editor Marshall Ballard, with his loose, comfortable clothes, vigorous address and un concerned habits epitomize the talented Southern individualist in an age of "mass circulations" and commercial editorial...