Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nation. . . . Citizens of true Anglo-Saxon origin are in meagre minority. During the last 60 years the millions of emigrants from Central Europe, Poles, Slavs, Italians, Sicilians, Jews, Russians, and the Danes, Finns and Swedes, have brought with them into their new home all of Continental Europe's age-old hatred of England...
...Religion: "As death and age thin their ranks [the fundamentalist ministers] and the effect of their efforts now beginning towards greater liberalism becomes evident, then and only then will Protestantism in the South turn from its advocacy of mob-law, its crippling of universities [exception: University of North Carolina], its opposition to knowledge, and its handicapping of Southern mentality...
...subjugated more, lynched more, maligned more, after the rise of King Cotton in 1830 than in the two centuries prior. In 1916, Northern industrial centres sent out a call for Negro labor. Two million Negroes responded. After a lynching whole areas would be depopulated overnight. In lynching's golden age (1890-1900), mob-murders were less expensive...
...made and lost several seven-figure fortunes before he was 40. John Pierpont Morgan considered him unsafe as U. S. Steel Corp. director. On a visit to St. Charles he once gave a boyhood friend a $25,000 farm in return for a 5¢ cigar. In 1911, at the age of 56, he died in Paris...
Uzcudun. Paulino Uzcudun, "Champion of Europe," is training in Hoosick Falls, N. Y., birthplace of William F. Carey, who succeeded Promoter Rickard at Madison Square Garden. Last week Promoter Carey visited him there. Unlike Schmeling, Uzcudun, a Basque woodchopper who wore shoes for the first time at the age of 24, is almost always noisy. He likes to sing and dance, both of which he did last week in honor of the Carey visit. He claims to be the champion woodchopper of the world. When Max Schmeling heard this, he tried to chop wood, too, but desisted after he struck...