Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagine what a furor this news will cause in the "What the Well-Dressed Man Will Wear" columns in Vanity Fair and theatre programs. Having missed being the heralds of a new age, Cholly Knickerbocker and Beaunash will probably commit suicide. It may soon become the fashion for engaged Columbia couples to exchange compacts at Christmas, perfectly assured that their presents will satisfy; and, beyond doubt, everyone will be rejoiced to see some saint in the compacts which haberdashers have always had on display along with perfume sprays and manicure sets...
These scholarships, open to unmarried citizens between 19 and 25 years of age who have completed at least two years of college, are tenable for three years and carry an annual stipend of 350 pounds sterling. Candidates may apply in the state where they reside or where they have received at least two years of their college education. The Rhodes Scholars are appointed without examination on the basis of their record in school and college, and there is no restriction on their choice of studies. Elections in 1925 will be from 32 states...
...concluded the University's defense in this wise: "I'm not an orator, but just a hick sheriff, but I know in 500 raids I've conducted on gambling and booze joints I've never found a student. . .The trouble (if any) nowadays is that old bozos of my age don't set the right example...
Born. To Mrs. Robert Littell of New York (the onetime Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter) a son, one of whose grandfathers was James G. Blaine, famed Secretary of State, and two of whose great-grandfathers were Eliakim Littell, founder of The Living Age, and Dr. Leopold Damrosch, founder of the Oratorio Society and introducer of German opera at the Metropolitan Opera House; at Bar Harbor...
Died. Dr. J. S. Halstead, 107, "oldest physician and oldest Free Mason in the U. S.," progenitor of 80 living descendants, survivor of a wife who had passed away at the age of 95; at Breckenridge, Mo., in the night. For a year he was the family physician of Henry Clay, famed orator. In 1851 Mrs. Clay called him in to treat some slave children on their plantation who had contracted scarlet fever. He became the friend and medical adviser of Mr. Clay, who died...