Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than 40,000 drawings by children in all parts of the U. S. were examined in a test of the artistic impulses of children between three and four years of age by Miss Stella McCarty, associate professor of education in Goucher College, Baltimore. At this age, she concluded, children have little or no sense of proportion or perspective...
Their wives, too, are of the literary persuasion: Inez Haynes Irwin writes girls' stories and novels, and Mrs. Wallace Irwin writes plays, to say nothing of Mr. Irwin's niece, Phyllis Duganne, who, at the absurd age of 20 (or was it 21?) published her first novel and has since become remarkably well known as a writer of short stories...
...Three Ages. Buster Keaton's first long feature is very, very funny -in spots. As a whole it drags a bit and depends a little too much on mechanical tricks for its humor-but the highlights are high enough when they come, to ensure a pleasant evening for almost anyone. The three ages concerned are the Stone Age, the days of the Roman Empire, and the present; the theme: that love is the same no matter in what century you meet...
...enthusiastic shouts arose from the throats of American yachtsmen from Eastport to Key West. It was most earnestly hoped that the fisherman's races would not degenerate into a series of the comic opera flascos that marked the course of the contests for the America's Cup some seasons age. Then, it will be remembered, conditions had to be exactly right; the sea could not be too choppy, yet there had to be enough wind to make it a race. If the weather kicked up rough at all, one or the other of the boats would carry away a topmast...
...habit of application among liberally-educated University graduates. Now they are finding that there is no reason to suspect this result: a man who has done well in one of the University's honor schools will probably do his work harder and faster than most men of his own age brought up in business...