Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Green Bough" Mr. Thurston has struck upon a rich vein, not a new one, in fact it is age-old, but one which is usually adapted to the life and delicacy and beauty which are so large a part...
...having all the grace, refinement, and texture of the miniature with the distinction and carrying power of the larger work. Though there be somewhat of the "photographic" quality in the drawings, the integrity, soundness, and uniqueness of the artist's work, its sympathetic humanity in bubbling youth or kindly age, are exceptional...
...Fiushing magistrate who recently sentenced a boy in the juvenile court to "three months reading in the Public Library" has established an exceedingly valuable precedent. The praise of books has been sung in every age, and today, when even the smallest hamlet nearly always possesses some sort of public reading-room, it is easy to believe that this institution is becoming the corner-stone of American progress. Yet the association of the library with the despised text-book still discourages the schoolboy from spending an hour with a favorite volume. And it is here that the power of the court...
...that city's famous party, and our navies in 1775 and 1812 were largely officered and manned by men from the Cape. But the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, the days of the clipper ships, were the days of Cape Cod's glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that of the fifty-six ships he once saw flying the American flag in the harbor of Rio, forty-eight were commanded by Cape Coders...
Probably no age is without its Edmund Burke,--some prominent Englishman who sees the case as America sees it. "Much as one may regret the absence of American participation in the League," says Lord Ishington, "one is driven to recognize by the present attitude of the executive in this matter that American apprehensions are not without justification. It is curious that it should be left to the American Legislature to give the British Parliament a lesson on its own Constitution by insisting on full Parliamentary control. "The demand for the recognition of Parliament in the mandate question is in complete...