Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London. After a long period of alternating unemployment and work he became General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and identified with political Labor currents. As a Cabinet Minister Mr. Barnes did much work of permanent value. The part which he once played so ably for old age pensions he replayed for wounded soldiers' pensions. As British Minister Plenipotentiary to the Paris Peace Conference he played a leading part in getting Labor conventions passed...
...great age of African exploration, when the world was thrilling to the achievements of Livingstone and Stanley, and the statesmen of Europe were at the height of their wild scramble for all the remaining corners of the earth. Young Johnston drifted naturally into Colonial administration as a Vice Consul in the Cameroons. Thereafter he served all over Africa, from Nigeria in the West to Mount Kilimanjaro and Nyasaland in the East. With an incomprehensible industry he controlled the natives, pushed British trade, extored, painted, studied native languages, worked as a botanist and zoologist, wrote books and articles, dealt with...
...Mencken, by The Dial, by even so conservative a critic as Henry Canby, he is a man who must be reckoned with. No one, I believe, questions his genuine sincerity, and there are many who believe that time will find him the great prose genius of our age...
This is an age when everyone writes who has anything to say, and many more write who have nothing at all to say. It is an age of mass publication and greater mass composition. Maupassant, if he were living now, would be very much out of style. For Maupassant practised writing for seven years before trying to publish any of his works, and then only began cautiously...
...world as a philosophical colony of the old world", said Professor Stein. "But just as this former English colony freed itself from its mother-country, so again the American spirit begins in right earnest not only to demand its intellectual equality and recognition of its having come of age but also to claim a certain leadership...