Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present age, Ananias may enjoy a religious resurrection more premature than that premised nineteen centuries ago. For the oracular omniscience from Brooklyn has placed a syndicated wreath on the grave of the supreme liar of history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...
...Once", continued Mr. Lupino, in relating some of the comic aspects of his stormy theatrical career. "I played the part of a lobster in a fairy story. I was only a child then, but, when I reached the age of 17 or 18, I played in a pantomine theatre where I impersonated successively the giants baby; a donkey, which was not difficult; and a little dove. When I once entered an acrobatic troupe. I received only $2 a week and 'food found'. Needless to say, every one found it except...
...midnight. For them the average wage is from $12 to $17 a week, though they do the same work as the men. After they return from the mills they must do housework and try to snatch some rest during the day while caring for their youngest children under school age. They work up to the last months of pregnancy and reenter the mills shortly after childbirth. The effects of this life are stamped upon them indelibly. Their backs are bent from the very nature of the work; their faces are pallid and drawn: their expression is haggard and listless...
...only are the women forced into the mills but also the children of working age are found applying for work. New Jersey law allows employment of children at 14 years of age provide that they attend "continuation school" two half days a week for two years. This rule is invariably followed. Boys and girls at this age enter the mill and do machine work almost equal to that of adult operatives receiving from $8 to $12 for a 48-hour week. They are employed on either day or night shifts. From early childhood these children have little to anticipate except...
...visit to a typical company house will convince one of the wretched conditions in which the workers live. The first family consisted of the two parents, both of whom worked, two children at school, and three others under school age. This family of seven lived in three small rooms, only one of which was lighted by a single gas jet. Most of the heat came from the cook stove. Only one room had windows. For this mite they paid a rental of about $26 a month out of a joint weekly wage...