Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declaring that he will sponsor a measure liberalizing the franchise (now restricted to male taxpayers 25 years of age and older), Kato has at least temporarily silenced his critics and renewed his grip on the Premiership...
...even greater interest to the average college type of intelligence. Chesterfield had advice to give which was a peculiar mixture of sound morality and worldly sense, and it seems to us that he wrote and thought in very much the same key as the ordinary American of college age today. What, for example, could be more typical than the advice not to understand title-pages too well, lest it smell pedantry...
...fraternize, later on their voices can be raised toward better understanding between nations. The coming and going of students between universities is centuries old. My little proposal was simply to apply the friendly exchange to school boys. I hoped, and still hope, that five hundred boys of high school age can be brought each year from Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and the Orient to our shores, here to be welcomed and given a year of education in fifty or more of our best American schools. Further in vision I see one hundred American boys spending a year...
...recently found its origin in New York. Strangers to the "big city,"--lonely, desirous of human companionship--have only to use the telephone to secure a charming feminine partner who will be eager to give the wanderer an evening of "wholesome pleasure." A gentlemen's preferences as to color, age, and figure are given careful attention by those in charge of allotting the girls; all that is required of the man in the case in a payment of ten dollars at the Central Office and the collection of his order. Then all New York is his oyster to be opened...
PEER GYNT-Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...