Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...VEGETABLE-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner ($1.75). An Alger theme Fitzgeralded through three acts of a mildly amusing play. Jerry Frost was one of the 9,999 who, according to insurance statistics, would fail to be self-supporting at the age of 70. A meek and henpecked failure, he cherished two secret ambitions 1) to be President of These States or, failing that, 2) to be the very best postman in the world. Synthetic gin enabled him to gratify both desires, the first in what psychoanalysts call " the dream-life," the second in reality. In the act, where Frost thinks...
Music weeks and festivals have raised loud ensembles all over the country during the closing season days. The most notable undoubtedly is the Cincinnati Music Festival. This function is wrapped with the triple dignities of age, bigness and merit. Cincinnati celebrates its Golden Anniversary Festival, the 50th yearly invocation of tuneful sound. The first festival was directed by Theodore Thomas in 1873. All of these events have been large and ceremonious...
...seventh daughter of a seventh daughter will not die young according to Negro tradition. In Brooklyn such an one just died at the age of 118 years...
...many doctors read Printers' Ink? How many brokers ever peruse The Casket? How many barbers devote their spare time to India Rubber Review? Or actors to The Iron Age...
Ordinarly, it is youth that is accused of excessive idealism, while age is credited with practical judgement. The alumni committee for a Harvard War Memorial has reversed this proverb. "A large majority of the members", says their report, "declared themselves in favor of a new chapel". Certainly this view will meet with less hostility than last year's report, which favored a purely abstract memorial such as a monument, belfry, or fountain; yet the committee's new suggestion will hardly appeal strongly to undergraduates, at any rate...