Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Black Oxen is not to be read as a dissection of humanity. It is valuable as an examination of social strata and their relationship. For example, there is the relationship between the generations-three of them -among the elite of New York: frozen dowagers of the Age of Innocence; spiteful younger women; crude little flappers of the jazz age. Equally important is the relationship of the aristocracy of money and birth to that of brains-the "Sophisticates", intellectual dictators of the city (columnists, playwrights, editors, novelists). Finally, the relationship of all these other groups to the subtle, intriguing, hypercivilized society...
...rarest tapestries of Medieval France, woven bits from a dimming past, but bright themselves despite their centuries of age," are now in the possession of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., having cost...
...requested that a committee be appointed from the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church to help reorganize the churches of Russia. The Soviet government has found in the social creed of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America the following principles: Protection of the worker from forced unemployment, old age pensions, minimum wage, reduction of hours of labor to the lowest practicable point, and the most equitable division of the product of industry which can be devised. (This creed was adopted by the Methodists...
...Minimum age for marriage...
Died: King Khama of Bamangwate, 87, Serowe, Bechuanaland. The son of a witch-doctor, at 12 years of age he became the protege of David Livingstone, the missionary-explorer. He was converted to Christianity, became king of the Bamangwate Nation, declared religious freedom, abolished slavery, prohibited the use of liquor. To enforce the latter decree he banished white men from his domain...