Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kuno Franke said of "Magda" some years ago, "It is one of those literary thunderclouds which are charged with the social and intellectual electricity of a whole age." And, inspite of women's suffrage, the widespread influence of modernistic schools of thought, and the unhampered liberty of the rising generation, it brings up an issue which today is far from dead--the great thundercloud of 30 years ago is still anything but a pale glimmer of heat lightening on the distant horizon...
...actress, who married a marquis: "Some people accused me of giving blatant gold-digging advice when I told a New York World reporter the following: 'There are times when clothes are about the best investment that a woman can make. If, instead of bleakly saving for her old age, a working girl puts her surplus into attractive gowns, she stands a chance of making a marriage that will change her whole life. A girl is foolish to be too thrifty with her clothes budget, especially during her prettiest years. . . . Every girl I know who made a good marriage this...
...many fields, will be well advised to prepare himself while in college for the studies of the engineering school. By wise planning, and without interfering with the attainment of a liberal education, he can thus avoid the unnecessary and irksome prolongation of professional studies beyond the age when he should begin the practical part of his career. It is desirable to continue the study of mathematics through the calculus, to take a course in general physics, one in chemistry, and in some cases a course in geology or in biology. He should learn to draw and he may to advantage...
Most of the gang members range in age from 9 to 16. Italian boys form their own gangs. Irish, German, Swedish boys run together indiscriminately. Syrians keep to themselves. Porto Ricans will not associate with Negroes, and Brazilians will not associate with Porto Ricans. Racial friction is an outgrowth of ancestral antipathies, since most of the young men's fathers, who are universally engaged in the stevedoring business, do not care to mingle with foreigners...
...Finally, just before I went home to celebrate with my wife, six children and seven grandchildren, who awaited me on Park Avenue, there came a message from my father, William H. Fiske, who has lived- most appropriately, some think, for the father of a life insurance man-to the age...