Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...closing, the brief declared that "the age-old tradition of free government will best be conserved if this question is resolved against the Executive and in favor of the Legislature...
Proud Flesh. The burlesque idea is gaining favor. Again the old-fashioned melodrama of the Spanish señorita, the laborer lover, the angry Spanish suitor is prepared. Its general age and weight are ridiculed. Eleanor Boardman, Harrison Ford and others are involved. Such productions are the cinema's saving sense of humor...
...stage is not utterly overcome yet, however," continued Miss Cowl "In this age of Jazz-parties, it is an excellent commentary upon our country that such a play as 'Romeo and Juliet' may have such a reception as I can vouch for. But it is a rare thing, that reception. And circumstances are making these successes fewer and fewer...
...Norman, who is 54 years of age, recently visited the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 20) on a mission that was widely held to be connected with Britain's mooted return to a gold-standard currency. The Governor, who is an Eton man and served through the South African War before he became interested in finance, is as silent as a whole graveyard. Neither U. S. nor British reporters, earnest, inquiring, persistent, could drag from him one word of the portent of his U. S. mission...
...with tales of suffering and disappointment, or the bright hope of fresh discovery. They may not come back at all. All this lies ahead or them but no more, for when they have seen and returned, the reality of knowledge will close forever over this final aftermath of the age of exploration...