Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wayne B. Wheeler, General Counsel and Legislative Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League: "If we confess that we cannot enforce our laws we cease to be a Nation. . . . Human progress will be turned back and the current now steadily setting toward a Golden Age will lose its force in a backwater...
...ambitions Pashitch is a picturesque old man and has earned for himself by his labors the title: "Grand Old Man of Serbia." He hopes to live to see prosperity brought to the Balkans. He seems to have a good chance, for his father lived to the grand old age...
This was an age of letter-writing among the ladies of the period. Most of them wrote about the trivialities of Court life and paid floods of compliments to the King and the "reigning mistress ;" few ventured upon criticisms. Those letters of de Scudéry, de Sévigné, de Grignan or de Maintenon were obsequious in character, unless they engaged in abstract discussion of the Arts or turned to the contemplation of Nature, which was the rarest of expedients. The letters of de Maintenon (widow of the poet Scrarron) were naturally centred upon the King...
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK- The Provincetown Players' diverting revival of a comedy of the 40's, with all the sentiments, asides, songs, characters, indigenous to that engaging "Awkward Age...
...Atlantic Monthly is one of the hardest-working and most modest of editors. He has brought a staid Boston publication to a circulation almost unbelievably large for that type of magazine.* Under his eye "The Atlantic Monthly Press" was born and is starting to flourish. The Living Age, now published from his offices, prospers. The Independent, in which he has no actual ownership, under a new group of owners and editors has moved to Massachusetts and is now making its home in the Atlantic offices under Mr. Sedgwick's benignant glances. He is one of our greatest American editors...