Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposed Amendment to the Constitution, giving Congress power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age, hung on in the Senate. The House had approved it. The Senate was expected to approve it ? if it could be brought to a vote...
Senator Bayard of Delaware suggested that the author of the last quotation had worked as a carpenter at at the age of twelve and without evil result...
...before his colleagues in council: "In all the 60 years that have elapsed since the war there has not been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here-songs of the vulgar type. "The most dramatic and the most pathetic and most...
...Guild Hall functions, the Prince of Wales escorted the fair Catholic, Mafalda. Overlooking the fact that the occasion demanded such attention, the people, conscious only that the reprobate bachelor Prince appeared with a pretty girl of the right age and the same rank, fell violently to gossiping of an imminent betrothal. But the Prince of Wales remained his misogamist self...
Outside the old site of the American Embassy in Tokyo, an unidentified male, about the age of 40, committed hara-kiri (suicide by disemboweling). With a small dagger he slit his abdomen crosswise and then upward "in the classical way" and slashed his neck. Two letters were found by his corpse, one to "The People of the Japanese Empire," which was not published, but was understood to call upon the nation to rise and avenge the insult of the U. S. Immigration Act; one to "The American Ambassador and the American People...