Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your voice is calm in a hurried and restless age. It tells us of life's abiding happiness and enduring satisfactions; that they lie not in pride of place and power, in greed of gold and vain display, but in simple and elemental things; in the love that glorifies the home; is health of body and mind; in labor that is of service to our fellowmen; and in the joy of work well done. You teach us to be honest in thought; steadfast and true; tolerant, of open mind, and just; and to be of courage and good cheer, having...
...grocers; in Florida, after a long illness. He was the youngest son of John M. Tilford, who, in 1835, with the assistance of a fellow clerk, Joseph Park, left the famed grocer Benjamin Albro, to "organize a little shop of their own." Frank entered the business at an early age, succeeded Hobart J. Park in 1906 as President and Treasurer. In 1923 he sold the business to David A. Schulte, head of the Schulte Retail (Cigar) Stores...
...extraordinarily balanced portrayal, making the proper suggestion of a maimed butterfly fluttering its wings. Her acting swings the real focus from the man to the maid. She washes from the part any taint of carnalism. Her varied, rainbow performance stamps her as the greatest young player of her age. Lionel Atwill is forceful, explodes with the splendid precision of dynamite. But at times he is too conscious of making an impression with friends across the footlights...
...through which man has passed to reach his present state of civilization-it must be remembered that this masculine Cassandra is both an author and a journalist, which might induce him to take as pleasantly gloomy an outlook as possible on the future of this great republic. If the age of accountability is placed at twelve, as it usually is, and many of the children examined were only ten or eleven, it is fairly obvious that these pseudo-scientific data may be received with several grains of salt...
Also, if Mr. Shepherd really believes that modern society is tottering nearer and nearer the grave, it is indeed fortunate for his own peace of mind that similar experiments have not been made among the generality of college students, for whom, one fears, the age of accountability may be placed lar beyond twelve. Lives there a man in any of the Newtons, for example, who has not found that it is possible to travel from Harvard Square, with transfer, to almost any outlying point for only five cents instead of the legally ordained ten? And yet to argue...