Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hugo Stinnes, 54 years of age, was an emperor of finance, a tsar of industry, a king of business. His minions were princes and grand-dukes, his serving men were lords. His interests were as far-flung as the seven seas. His business was no one thing in particular, but everything in general. He dealt in trusts of super-trusts or trusts of trusts of trusts. It has been said that "when you were in Germany the trains and ships on which you travelled, the hotels you lived at, the shops you bought from, the newspapers you read, the banks...
...grandfather, Mathias Stinnes, was a rich man. His father, Gustav Stinnes, was also rich. At 20 years of age Hugo inherited a steamboat business and a mine in Westphalia from his father. From that time on he began his scheme of creating vertical trusts founded upon the broad basis of raw materials. As years passed his millions increased, during the War they grew rapidly, and after the War they simply swelled up to grotesque proportions and in 1924 the man, Hugo Stinnes, had won a prestige by the force of cold cash greater than any other man in history...
...Moscow on a charge of being a spy, although I have no idea where the rumor originated. . . I was brought before the most remarkable woman in Russia, Simanova, known as 'The Merciless,' and the real chief of the Foreign Department. She is less than 30 years of age, beautiful, and a blonde with blue eyes. After questioning me she demanded that I confess that I was a spy. I refused and she turned to one of her assistants and said: 'He must be shot.' . . . Again I was taken before Simanova and after expressing regret that...
...doing a clog dance and even by doing a Julian Eltinge in girl's clothes. But his inimitable naturalness and naivete are being crowded out by stereotyped gestures and muggings, such as no small 'boy does except at an amateur entertainment. Jackie is now at the difficult age when he is too big for infant roles, and too pocket-size for adult parts. Booth Tarkington should come to his rescue...
...year in human fossils came to light on the Rancho Cunajo, near Los Angeles, Calif. A construction company, building a sewer, turned up a petrified skull and bone fragments of five human frames in a sand pit 23 feet below the surface. The strata are of the Pleistocene age, antedating the last great ice age, which ended at least 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. Several trained scientists happened to be near, including Dr. John C. Merriam, President of the Carnegie Institution; Dr. Robert T. Hill, geologist; Dr. William A. Bryan, Director of the Los Angeles Museum; Dr. Chester...