Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berger returned to the House as Representative of the Fifth Wisconsin District. He was defeated for re-election last November. His chief legislative hobbies: 1) Abolition of the Constitution; 2) Substitution of a nationwide referendum for the Senate; 3) Repeal of the 18th Amendment; 4) An old age pension bill; 5) Government ownership of railroads, telegraphs, telephones; 6) Unemployment insurance...
Every courtier must have his queen, and Bachelor Norman's is a fussy old lady in a mythical lace cap?a sort of financial Queen Victoria. Her age is 235. In the bustling City of London she has been affectionately called for generations "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street." In all her life she has never kept a favorite as long as the nine years she has kept Montagu Collet Norman. Courtier Norman was defending his Old Lady against concerted attacks on her gold reserve?especially against the attacks of ungallant Neighbor France...
Whatever shoe there is in it was last week put upon the other foot by a Mrs. Annabelle Young, church worker. She petitioned New Haven's Board of Aldermen to pass an ordinance obliging all girls of New Haven over twelve years of age to wear stockings in public or court arrest. Said Worker Young: "A splendid body of students come here each year. . . . I love young people and want to protect them against themselves...
FAREWELL TO PARADISE-Frank Thiess-Knopf ($2). To those who have never read him, Author Thiess may be introduced as the hot trumpet in Germany's jazz age. The Gateway to Life (1927) interpreted adolescents; The Devil's Shadow (1928), closed with the picture of its hero setting out for the U. S. as a sort of missionary for a white-slave trust, exulting: "Life is so glorious!" Pillars of Fire (1930) will conclude this tetralogy (4-novel work) whose first work, a prelude to all the rest, is Farewell to Paradise...
...Edison plant for their official reception, they found speakers' platforms, microphones, chairs, benches. Pale, a little nervous, the boys sat down. Spectators commented on the normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there in the hot sun, looking with...