Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When companionate marriage is really understood," commented Judge Lindsey in his recent speech in New York, "it will mean an enormous in crease in the health and happiness of our undergraduates by increasing marriage at colleges and affording our students a normal adjustment at an early age at just that point where so many youthful lives are totally wreched...
...Voltaire will say that the Klan was a movement of child-minded men whose age prevented them from sharing otherwise in the romantic spirit of the time and who dressed themselves up with regalia, symbols and gibberish to play solemnly at an exciting game. After a while, the game got boring...
...They are not everlastingly chasing after false gods and new 'isms' and 'schisms' . . . . Thousands of New York's Democracy may be Irish, but they are as good Americans as they are Democrats, and the Irishman is as jealous of his party as of the age-worn tradition of the shamrock...
...most promptly is the foundation of public secondary schools for the exclusive purpose of college entrance examination. In Germany the decision between high school or college preparation for life comes when the boy is ten years old; in England about a year later. Mental tests at ten years of age to determine eligibility for university education are believed in Germany to be equal in justice as in efficacy with eight years of trial by education...
Prohibition, the curse of America; Prohibition, the blessing of the age; and now, Prohibition, the subject of an epic by the talented M. Pillionel, who promises to turn the shafts of his Gallic wit on this topic in the very near future...