Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...age of 73, rather deaf but very active," there arrived in the U. S. Viscount Leverhulme, King of Port Sunlight, the home of soap, on board the S. S. Majestic. He was accompanied by his son, the Hon. William Hulme Lever, also by an old school fellow, Jonathan Simpson, and by five directors of his various companies...
There is no more striking illustration of the altering effect of circumstance than the question of forgery. In the world of finance the perpetrator goes to jail; in the world of letters he is received, when discovered, with applause. Chatterton, at the age of fifteen, fooled Horace Walpole completely, and has been hailed by subsequent generations as a genius. There is a modern case which is still being fought out. Although the dispute as to whether Daisy Ashford or Sir James Barrie wrote the "Young Visiters" was allowed for a time to slip into a state of lethargy, the authorship...
...difficult to remain composed when one considers the dirge of President Butler of Columbia sung over the degeneracy of modern education and statesmanship since the superior Victorian age. It is certainly true that there have never been more educated "down and outers" than at present. But it seems somewhat doubtful that these sad specimens are due wholly to modern degeneracy, as Dr. Butler seems to infer...
...contrary in fact, those educated derelicts, which encumber the modern world, are just another of those burdensome heritages which an impeccable Victorian Age has dumped upon that modern world. In particular one may cite the scholars of Germany, whom the President of Columbia mentions as being among the most spectacular of educational failures, as true exemplars of Victorian ideals...
...dummy American" manufactured out of whole cloth by Franklin, and the age which produced him, has been bandied about by the subsequent writers until by the time of Walt Whitman there is nothing to do but to paw over the shredded remains. In him Mr. Lawrence finds "all that false exuberance. All those lists of things boiled in one pudding-cloth". Whitman is at the end of the road, at the very verge of the precipice...