Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...corporation will be required to manufacture 3,000,000 gallons of whiskey yearly. This will shrink to the 2,000,000 gallons needed annually for licit purposes, after the five years that whiskey must age to be good...
...None but men." Such is the rule concerning the servants of the Pope's household. But in 1886 one Teodolinda Banfi became housekeeper for Pope Leo XIII, remained under Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XL Retired last week by age (65*), placed in a steam-heated modern apartment across from the Vatican, she wept with loneliness, refused luxury in Milan, saying, "He may need my services again." Opportunism. The past week produced loud Episcopal dissent from the Roman Catholic satisfaction over its annulment of the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt (TIME, Nov. 22). Up spoke...
That very fine study of the late President Eliot which appears in the current number of Harper's inadvertently demonstrates once again the very great influence which personality has upon the undergraduate. Alumni out 20 or 30 years repeatedly approached President Eliot in his old age with the remark that the most lasting memory that they carried away from Harvard was the sight of the President walking to his office every morning...
...would he be inclined to utter it before the Child Study Association of America an organization which is noted for its tendency to see only the theoretically bright side of things. Certainly the modern child is somewhat of an enigma: in many cases a terrifying specimen, reared in an age when old ideals are being ruthlessly shattered to make way for new. It is dangerous to generalize and especially so in referring to children: nevertheless this, the youngest generation, is betraying an alarming sophistication and ennui to the extent that parents are wondering what will be able to please their...
...note that at the end of your editorial it is alleged that "neither the author of 'The Plastic Age' nor a writer for 'Liberty' can produce the panacea" and that "the duty of those who have education on their minds as well as their hearts is to find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized". Such a conjunction of claims would imply that neither Mr. Marks nor myself has the slightest interest in the humanization of the doctorate requirements, and what is more, that the idea of such humanization has never occurred to either...