Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once aristocratic Tsarol days of sport and opulence are gone. He is trusted of Bolsheviks, and at Moscow heads the Soviet Statistical Department. His attendant stenographers and private secretary were seen, last week, to be ladies of stern, middle age, their skirts at pre-War length, their manners suggesting not at all the imaginary "free-love" conditions pretended to exist in Russia. Second in authority was Comrade Eugen Varga, a Hungarian, one-time chief adviser to the ousted Soviet dictator of Hungary, fat, spiderlike Bela Kun (dictator...
...introduce the paper without hesitation to their clients in the sensitive rural communities of New Jersey. President Fawcett and Ibis Jones' are little Dutch girls. They chase dirt. They are obviously leading an earnest crusade to make the Lampoon as pure and respectable as it was in its age of innocence...
...next stage in the Lampoon's development will, accordingly, be watched with interest. It has passed through the dangerous age. And the reviewer would like to express his conviction that never, not once, has the Lampoon's worst been one half as bad as the very best of most other college comic. Their jejune obscenities can be studied, by any sociologist who will take the trouble to collect an armful of them; and this will be an excellent thing for anyone who has lifted a supercilious eyelid at the peccadilloes of the Lampoon. The nastiness of little boys telling dirty...
...Author is Humorist Irvin Cobb's only daughter. Her looks are from her pretty mother's side. About as big as a minute?an exciting minute?she took to writing when other girls her age were seeing how their hair looked "up." The pleasant New York landscape (near Ossining) amid which she spent her 'teens is distinguished also by the estate of Publisher George A. Doran...
...will give a public performance in the Engineering Society Auditorium in Manhattan. Few composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers have achieved mature fame but were "child prodigies" to start with. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed talent at 4, genius (in public) at 6, which was Josef Hofmann's age at his piano debut and Nellie Melba's when she first sang to Melbourne, Australia. Handel was skilled on the organ, Meyerbeer on the piano, Schumann at composing, Kreisler and Joachim on the violin, at 7. Eight-year-old Ottavio Gallo (above) has Bach and Paganini as precedents for his precocity...