Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest of the world has paid an enormous price for its great industrialization. Besides, the Mexicans are very clever. They can carry their own load. They have included all industrial problems in their Constitution, They trust none of these problems like the eight hour day, the 16 year age limit for working children, and similar ones to a Supreme Court. They wrote the legislation of the world for the last 50 years into their constitution. All strikes since 1917 have been caused by the violation of some issue in the Constitution...
...several years since Mr. Percy Marks, by writing the 'Plastic Age," filled schoolboys with a keen eagerness for going to college and their parents with grave apprehensions about sending them there. Having sought in vain for another theme which would capitalize the furor he had made, the author has gone back to the adventures of the wild Cynthia and the experimentative Carl Peters, whom readers will recall as leaving the campus under rather a cloud. In the new book they are presented five years after...
...rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave read about Tom Swift after his adventures are over and his magic flying machine stabled in the garage, as pursue the maturity of the plastic age settling into stodgy concrete...
...wealthy, respectable lawyer in a stable community. But the ballyhoo beckons to the boy, also. He joins the circus one vacation, soon develops an aversion for "all them colleges" of his father's dreams and hopes, marries the snake-charmer, a maid of 20 summers, whose age "if ye go by experience is 120." Brokenhearted, disappointed by his son's "ingratitude," "Nifty" is on the point of deserting the show when he sees the substitute barker flopping about in a feeble exhortation before an unresponsive crowd. Then, like Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt of What Price Glory, "Nifty...
This year the play will deal with Queen Elizabeth and the Elizabethan Age. It will be a costume play in a colorful setting with fitting melodies and attractive dance specialties...