Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...church; Saul the clever theologian and subtle Greek philosopher, never- save once in his proud youth at the feet of Gamaliel-never letting intellectual pride smother the pure flame of Christ's love; ending his days, near the time of Rome's burning, in humble age, saying: "I am only an old man, to whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people to tell it to. . . ." The Book of Acts is as full of names as a map is full of cities and out of ten scores of names...
...Peach." And who can say that Mrs. Felton does not deserve them? It is true that sh? sat in the U. S. Senate for only two days in 1922, but no other woman has ever sat there as a member. It is true that other women have reached the age of 91, but how many of them rise at 6 a. m., manage a 600-acre plantation and write letters to newspapers flaying politicians, bankers? Last week in the Atlanta Constitution, alert Georgians noticed a letter from Mrs. Felton. Said she: "As an old widow, lacking only a little more...
...Received notice from Premier Baldwin that his Cabinet will fulfill one of its major pre-election pledges by introducing, after the Easter recess, a bill enfranchising all women above 21, whereas 30 is the present minimum voting age for women...
...hope of the future. . . . The most important thing in the world is a belief in the reality of moral and spiritual values. The second is a belief in the spirit and the methods of Galileo, of Newton, of Faraday, and of the other great builders of this modern scientific age-this age of the understanding and the control of nature. . . . For while a starving man may, indeed, be supremely happy, it is certain that he cannot be happy very long...
...time?Henry H. Rogers (Standard Oil); John W. Gates, speculator from California; August Belmont, Charles T. Yerkes and Thomas Fortune Ryan who managed street railways to their own profits. Those of these men who still live have become mel-lowed?by discretion and by the workings of old age and the Sherman Anti-Trust Law which Congress in fury at them passed...