Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been so absolutely the property of their owners in Kalat that two mated slaves were sometimes refused even sustenance by their master, forced to shift for themselves, and then any children which they might manage to bring up were finally seized by the original master as they reached an age suitable for slave work. Reputedly, the grand Khan has seen the error of such ways with so blinding a suddenness that he freed all the Kalat slaves without compensation to their onetime masters, thereby precipitating a revolutionary movement which the Khan is now busy suppressing...
This so great excitement in high places over a few trivial words mounted, last week, because the Government is reported on the verge of introducing a bill to extend the franchise to women below the present minimum voting age of 30 - perhaps even down to "flappers...
Died. James Smith Jr., 75, one-time (1893-99) U. S. Senator from New Jersey; in Newark, N. J., from the infirmities of age. In 1910 he nominated Woodrow Wilson for Governor of New Jersey and was then politically crushed by him in two historic battles...
...TEXAS GUINAN FREE, HOLDS KISSING BEE" euphonistically wrote a New York headline writer. "Texas" Guinan, night club hostess, once virile out-of-door woman, helped her brother "Texas Tommy" herd cattle at the age of ten. Last week, freed by Federal Judge Thomas Thacher of charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of the Prohibition Law, she said: "Thank God, that's over," and plastered "Texas Tommy," Herman Edson, the club manager, ''Mike" Edelstein, her lawyer, with smacking busses. Dry agents testified in the trial, that they found the court's injunction reposing sedately...
Taking his share of the capital and "handsome profit" derived by the sale of the Birmingham Age-Herald (TIME, March 21) Frederick I. Thompson, publisher of all the newspapers in Mobile, Ala., last week bought an Evening Times, and thereby became publisher of all the evening newspapers in his state's capital, Montgomery. He merged the Evening Times with his Montgomery Evening Journal. Publisher Thompson's onetime partners in Birmingham, onetime Governor Braxton Bragg Comer and son Donald Comer, were not associated with him in the new purchase, their interest in newspapers having been purely industria-political. Save...