Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years past been a power-house generating serious discussion of international affairs. First projected in 1913 by Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams, it became real in 1921. Mr. Baruch guaranteed its expenses for three years. There were 138 members enrolled, most of them over 50 years of age; half of them from uni-versity faculties, the other half lawyers, diplomats, clergymen, journalists, business men, representatives of the Army and Navy. Distinguished men were secured to give lectures open to the public and to lead the Round-Table Conferences for members only...
...wood Broun: "Best of all American comedies-an authentic nugget in this the golden age of the American theatre...
Fashion, or Life in New York. A milestone of the drama, this American comedy of manners was first produced in 1840 when the metropolis was only beginning to bustle. Its revival demonstrates how far the Theatre has advanced since its so-called Golden Age. Merely to recite its plot indicates that the very cinema has progressed beyond this stage. Snobbish Mrs. Tiffany, by aping the extravagances of French society, drives her husband into forging. That puts him in the power of a confidential clerk; but stay! he is saved in the last act by an old friend, a wealthy upstate...
...authentic nugget in this golden age of the American theatre...
...probably it isn't so very dreadful after all, except as showing that boys will be boys--and men, men. It has been said in refutation of the "Golden Age" theory that the first man born into the world killed the second. After that he probably formed a club, and excluded his children, who probably formed separate clubs and excluded everybody they could think of. All of which finally led to the Tower of Babel--the paradise of clubs where nobody had to talk to anybody because nobody spoke the same language...