Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans. Concerning candidates for the Indiana Senate, Senator James E. ("Big Jim") Watson, a Republican opportunist, might well, it was conceded, be beaten by young Albert Stump, whose personality reminded older citizens of how Albert J. Beveridge had looked, and behaved at his age. Evans Woollen, an Indianapolis banker of 62, whose intellectual integrity had hitherto been considered a handicap, appeared to have some chance of beating his opponent, Republican Senator Arthur R. Robinson. So stated, the situation is simple enough, but there are reasons behind even so simple "a thing as a State...
...school teacher from upstate New York packed his valise, boarded a train for Manhattan. The townsfolk of Clinton said Elihu Root would make a name for himself- was he not the son of a mathematics professor; was he not valedictorian of his graduating class at Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook, but he usually fixed things up for his clients, whether they were members of the notorious Tweed Ring or onetime...
...Stevens Point?" some one had asked her. "Surely to begin a fiftieth anniversary tour-?" "Vy not?" Ernestine Schumann Hemk had answered. Should she go back to Europe, to Gratz where she had given her first formal concert at the age of fifteen? Should she go back to the little Austrian town where she grew up, the homely, hard-working child of a Bohemian soldier and an Italian mother? To be sure she had earned her first money there playing dance tunes on a tinkly piano in an old restaurant where the peasants gathered on holidays. Ninety-six cents...
...made, the whole brief of the opposition to autos was torn down and a firm foundation for that of the advisability of keeping hands off in the matter was laid. If the problem lies within the character of the student, it is to be supposed that men of college age, with or without cars, can ride on to their destiny free from unnecessary meddling interference from their particular administration...
...combat the apathy, so long prevalent among voters betweeen the age of 21 and 25 that The Republican Associates has been formed. Older men, brought up in the traditions of the torchlight parade when voting was almost a religious duty, still respond to the call and by casting their ballot give a democratic form of government the life blood, which it needs Government, it is said, rests on the consent of the governed. This imposes on all of us--"the governed"--an obligation which under a monarchy we would not have. Unfortunately statistics show that in some cases only about...