Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of Education, to conduct the pedagogical research and advisory work now performed by the Bureau of Education in the Department of the Interior. The assembly unanimously adopted a report by investigators into the lot of the superannuated school teacher. What she dreads most is a lonely old age. To provide "companionship to prevent loneliness and grief" the Association will conduct a campaign to raise money for teacher homes...
...experienced in examining noble works of the human mind (though these ecstasies are well known to him), but for the immediate benefits to society that might follow, if all men took thought or honored the wise men of their time. A realist, he does not despair of the Golden Age in a time of crass opulence, but sees this country as an adolescent that has really done extraordinarily well to produce a Dewey so soon. The country might well take unto itself another compliment for having produced a Will Durant. The Significance of his book is its extraordinary humanization...
...What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake of Roscoe's voter-bludgeoning henchman, Thomas C. Platt?" In a jazzed age no news hound delved through the reference "morgue" of his paper to turn up the great story of Conkling, Platt, Garfield and James G. Blaine. But for the tangled interplay of their rapier politics Garfield would never have been President, nor would the name of Blaine awaken potent memories...
...age of 36, the consumptive, nervous, hypersensitive Weber was told by a physician that he had but a few months to live, if he did not immediately take a rest and a sun cure in the South. He was considering a lucrative offer from London; Charles Kemble wished to produce Weber's opera, "Oberon," at Covent Garden. The emotional strain of such an event always left him weak for days afterward and he did not want to go to London. But going meant an inheritance for his wife and two baby sons, while living on aimlessly a few years...
Orators caught up the phrase. From the World's Fair, the stage, current literature, the mouths of suffragettes, Author Beer sweeps together damaging evidence of the rise of the U. S. "Titaness," who now "drifts toward middle age without valour, charm or honor," after inventing "cheap cruelty and low social pressures...