Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admirable ease and grace of the narrative as well as the pleasing truth with which the principal characters are designed make "The Vicar of Wakefield' one of the most delicious morsels of fictious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. We read it in youth and age--we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature."--Sir Walter Scott. Large quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. Published at $20.00. Constable, Ltd., London. Special Price...
...that a critic in the Literary Review of 'the New York Evening Post places Dr. Crofters' book in a list suitable for the Seventh Age of Reading, for those who are post their prime and have reached the age of at least sixty. It takes all my slight remainder of youthful courage to differ from so high an authority and recommend "The Dame School of Experience" to-a much less aged audience. Essays need not so much age for their enjoyment as a conversational altitude of mind; and there has always been enough talk at Harvard, if not real conversation...
...present there are 333,000 persons in Massachusetts, ten years of age and over, who need instruction in speaking, reading and writing English. Of these 118,000 are unable to write in any language and 215,000 are unable to read and write English. Ninety percent of these people are twenty-one years of age and over. Three hundred thousand men of voting age are unnaturalized...
...American Imagines it Happens in England," and "How the Englishman Imagines it Happens in America"; John Hastings Turner and James Montgomery Flagg are responsible for the respective Angles. A merry satire on the Twentieth Century child, who in the sophistication of his or her ten or twelve years of age plays the races, shoots craps and drinks cocktails, is offered in "The Children's Hour in a Modern Nursery." "Marriage a la Mode," "The Roof Tops of New York," and "Keystone Beach" are the other pocket comedies, which afford the principals plenty of chances to gain the hearty approval...
...England approaches the menacing problems of an industrial age with more intelligence than Americans show, it is due, in part at least, to leadership. We tried to improvise a Farmer-Labor Party this year, or a Bull-Moose program in 1912. Our largest city elected in 1913 a mayor whose record arouses great enthusiasm among experts in municipal government, but for political reasons he is swept to a terrific defeat after four years of intellectually triumphant service. Why? Because there is not a sufficiently large class of trained thinkers who keep the people alive to the important aspects of what...