Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year. Unfortunately there must remain one vestige of the archaic male predominance, for the vulgar advantage of physical strength still cannot be argued away even by the eloquence of Lucy Stone. But no more concessions. The immobile circumstances of fate must yield to feminine efficiency and cunning. In this age of uncertainty, the well insured man is wisely given preferment in the stead of the healthy athlete. After all, the Akron girl knows a good wife must be a good provider...
President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval air unit at Yale and Mr. Ingalls was that unit's bright particular flower. Over seas Mr. Ingalls was attached to an English squadron over which he, still in his 'teens, was soon given command. In two months duty...
...born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when...
...brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow Wilson in drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations as Italian Foreign Minister (1919-20) ; today, in the 73rd year of his vigorous age, he is the personal and implicitly trusted diplomatic representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations, and around the big U-shaped council table there came to order some 14 statesmen, including Europe's famed "Big Three": Sir Austen...
BACK in this reviewer's toy-soldier age, which coincided with the early years of the war, there appeared a succession of war stories like Empey's "Over the Top" and Collins' "Outwitting the Hun," that gave him vicariously--and diluted--the thrills of combat. Such books stood on the seven-day shelves of American libraries, and though they protested stoutly and even violently their fairness, they had their little part in arousing the sentiment of 1917. As books, they were fitting for the toy-soldier age. Private Suhren is a definitely more matrue volume than these, and while...