Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Aster's bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor to youths under the age of 18 for consumption on the premises where it was sold, passed its second reading by a majority of 282 votes. This is the first legislation proposed by a woman...
...Middle of the Road has been unenthusiastic, but, in general, favorable. Its defects are generally recognized as those of its unquestioned qualities. There is every likelihood of its wide popularity. The Author. Sir Philip Gibbs is an English journalist and novelist. His journalistic career began at the age of 21 when he became one of the editors of Cassell & Co. He is married and has one son. Cosmo Hamilton is his brother. Among publications, he has been connected with the Daily Mail, the Daily Chronicle, the Tribune. During the war he was a correspondent, with, at various times, the Bulgarian...
...prove of more value in treatment of whooping-cough than any other remedy, including vaccine, according to Drs. Henry I. Bowditch and Ralph D. Leonard, who have just published a preliminary report of their experiments in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. Out of 26 active cases, ranging in age from 3 months to 40 years, which received three or four applications at intervals, 15 per cent were promptly cured, the spasms disappearing entirely, 70 per cent were relieved, and 15 per cent remained unchanged. It is too early and the data are too meager to make definite predictions...
...loosely falling iron gray hair, bends slightly forward. He talks deliberately, softly, his somewhat piercing and remarkably blue eyes lighting now and then with mischievous humor. Frost was born in San Francisco. His father, a transplanted New Englander, was a newspaper man. His mother was Scotch. At the age of ten, however, Robert Frost was living in Massachusetts, and it is with the New England states that he is firmly associated. He left Dartmouth after a short try as an undergraduate. He studied only fitfully at Harvard. Occasionally he has attempted to teach; but academic restrictions do not suit this...
PEER GYNT?Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings. Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...