Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nevada is one of the chief silver producing states of this country. Senator Tasker L. Oddie (Republican) and State Hughes uses, or rather misuses, Senator Key Pittman (Democrat) are the men. Both have been engaged in the mining business at one time or another. At the age of 25 Key Pittman joined the gold rush to Alaska and worked for two years as a common miner. Later he became the first district attorney of Nome. He returned to the United States proper, and settled in Tonopah, Nev., one of the Nevada silver and gold mining cities...
Walpole's work is rich in background and in characterization, as well as in a rare understanding of humanity without an overlarding of the sentimental. He is wise, tolerant and youthful in his freshness of interest in life. Having accomplished so much at so early an age (39), there is every chance that he will continue to write better and better books. His last word, the other day, was: "Well, I must try to write a novel that's really a novel, now that this lecturing if over !" He probably will...
...American technical men have come forward with their own suggestions of the most necessary innovations. Elmer A. Sperry, Lee De Forest, Frank B. Jewett and William Murray agree in substance that new, cheap sources of fuel or other forms of energy are the most urgent needs of the age. Other suggestions include: inventions to supply the fundamental necessities of food, clothing and shelter; means of world communications; a practicable method of eugenic selection...
Gabriele d'Annunzio: " Arriving at a regatta, I found that the committee in charge had provided me with an easy chair but had furnished straight backed chairs for the other guests. Regarding this as a reflection on my age, I hurled the chair bodily into the lake. Now, I discover that the chair was a borrowed antique. The committee must fish...
...world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians". In the art of war there is no single outstanding figure, unless the title of Marshall Foch be changed from that of a great patriot to that of a great inctician. It is almost as if, in an age of mass production there were no men truly great; but the question is one which the present cannot decide. And meanwhile men of today can do little but erect tributes to the great of the past, and hope that the future may find among them some who shall be worthy...