Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, on Mr. Coolidge's behalf, addressed letters to prominent Republican members of Congress, urging them to secure and expedite the pass age of a bill for reorganizing the Executive branch of the Government...
...will leaves the bulk of the estate to his son Edward Sampson of Washington, D. C. The estate is given to the son as a trust fund which will not be accessible to him until he reaches the age of 40. However, the will declares that should he die before this time and should he leave no children the University shall receive $110,000 as an endowment for a chair of poetry...
Russian Ambassadors, too, have been noted in the past for the splendor of their ambassadorial receptions; but all that belongs to another age. Today, working clothes, red ties and other hallmarks of the proletariat are in fashion at the Bolshevik Embassies...
...That he has been successful is simply a proof of a determination to succeed which has followed him through life. Having written many books in spare hours, having become known as a writer of stories of law, lawyers, crime, its detection and of humor, he found himself at middle age determined to break with his habits of life and to become a sort of American Galsworthy. He wrote, therefore, His Children's Children,* which caught critical and public fancy. He has followed it with several other books, among them, The Needle's Eye† and Marriage...
...Stoner Jr. (Mrs. Charles P. de Bruche), aged 22, was raised by her mother to be a prodigy. She "has made impromptu speeches in public since the age of four." She has written for publication since the age of five. Her books include Patrino Anserino (Mother Goose in Esperanto, written at the age of six), animal stories, children's histories, volumes of fact-jingles. The mother of Mrs. de Bruche is Mrs. James B. Stoner of Norfolk, Va., "founder of the Natural Education System." Mrs. Stoner attributes the .brilliance of her daughter in no small part to the fact...