Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debut. Increasingly sleek, fashionably dressed and attentive to women (although happily married, albeit childless*) "Mitch" at first used to go about saying frankly, "I owe my election to ladies, Liberals and Labor!" In those days he was blatantly the proletariat's friend. In 1930 at 34 years of age, Mr. Hepburn was elected Provincial Leader of the Liberal Party, and just four years later he was swept in as Premier of Ontario in the Liberal landslide...
...Publisher of The Globe and Mail," editorialized the Globe and Mail recently, "has been able to help many men regarded as chronic alcoholics or pathological drinkers. To date at least a score of them of his own age and over can testify that through his personal efforts they have been able to master liquor and boast of total abstinence...
...Mail is not attempting to make himself a judge of other men. He has no desire to legislate for mature manhood under the prohibition rule. He is tolerant of every man's personal rights. He will serve a drink at his home to a guest of the age of discretion, if it is desired. By the same token he will use his utmost resources to spare the growing youth of this country from the pitfalls of alcohol. This, he believes, is the inner feeling also of those men who claim they 'can handle...
...Age. "The true recipe for longevity," said Dr. F. A. E. Crew of University of Edinburgh, president of the zoology section, "is to be born a girl." Dr. Crew found informative reading matter in the British Statistical Review of the Registrar-General. In the tables for 1935 he found that in England and Wales 105.6 boys were born for every 100 girls. Of babies who died in the last three months of pregnancy there were 110 boys to 100 girls. And after birth the mortality rate at all ages was higher for males than for females. Thus although boys constituted...
Thus, while some of her judgments remain arbitrary and personal, educators and historians can compare her new book with her old for a picture of changes that have come over U. S. manners during the 15 years in which Prohibition had its heyday and departed, in which the jazz age ran its course, in which women's skirts rose and fell and rose again like the curtain on a play, in which radio, automobiles, airplanes, and divorce altered the tempo of U. S. life. Examples of the new Etiquette's changes and additions...