Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Secretary General of the Fascist party, Signor Augusto Turati. Last month, he had ordered all "young and even little" Italian girls to have their skirts at least two fingers' lengths below their knees. Last week he altered his order to apply to all females, regardless of age, and specified a reasonable two inches for the below-knee limit required to give the proper external impression of Fascism's internal seriousness...
...commissioners had every reason to expect that their instructions would be broad, penetrating, exhaustive. President Hoover is not merely an astute politician. He has a mind which, given a curious pebble, wants at once to investigate a whole rock formation, an entire geologic age...
...Block argued this possibility: were Mr. Block to keep the American substantially out of the red, might it not some day be profitable for him to buy the news paper? And might not that lead Publisher Block to buy other Hearstpapers? Publisher Hearst is 66, a selling-out age; Publisher Block is 52, a good age for buying...
...took place in our home and our son was taken to a hospital in the Rue Puccini. . . . Our son is now in an extremely grave condition. We wish to emphasize that we had no objection to the girl, but only opposed the marriage because of our son's age...
...error." Guessing that the next news would be Publisher McLean's withdrawal of his million-dollar action, readers of the hard-hitting Record, and of other publications which had touched on the case of Publisher McLean v. Prince de Ligne, transferred their attention elsewhere. Infant Shame. The minimum age at which a person can be embarrassed, shamed and disgraced has never been clearly defined. But up to last week one Theodore W. Purtee, of Cincinnati, considered that a 12-month-old baby was not too young to be embarrassed, shamed, disgraced. A concern used Mr. Purtee's infant...