Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Labor suspects that it knows what causes underlie the discrimination against 40-year-oldsters. Older men are discharged and younger men hired, thinks Labor, to keep down the average employe age upon which group insurance premiums are reckoned and paid. Unmarried men are in greater demand than family men because of the lower payments to be made under workmen's compensation laws...
...interview last week Italy's Apostle of Youth mentioned for the first time his old age...
...that scrupulous historical detail which has always made Fairbanks pictures an improvement, for U. S. audiences, on the work of romantic authors. Better also than Dumas, rhythm and comedy are by Fairbanks. He has fought victoriously with life some inner battle which for most people ends in defeat. Middle age has failed to slow up his body. He enables audiences of all ages to study what it is that makes boys the real superiors of grownups...
...Barrymores, though actually of Hampden's age (John is now 47; Lionel, 50; Hampden, 48) seemed too young. Otis Skinner seemed ruled out by his hostility to the Actors' Equity Association. So Walter Hampden really had no rival as "Uncle John" Drew's successor...
Hampden is the Dean's middle name. His family name is Dougherty, the "Dockerties" of Brooklyn. The first boards he trod were in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, where he was a gangling "Shylock" in itchy whiskers at the age of 16. He had a year at Harvard and another year, to experiment with his bass-baritone voice and a certain flair for the cello, in Paris...