Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absolutely disapprove such sentimental or political doctrines or views. There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...
...each nation of the continent a friendly nation and each of the same age, friendly and equal States of a great continent in which great nations progress along an even line as a group of friends as friendly, or more so, than brothers with similar ideals, which lead in new directions to new purposed, all close together and all at equal levels...
Pending last week were additional bills which would give every Deputy and Senator a yearly allowance of 12,000 francs per year for house rent if single, 15,000 if a husband and 18,000 if a father of living offspring, legitimate and under age...
...There is conflict then driving the music on to another loud climax. The theme again is "America" but it is mournful and bleeding now until the third movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it. Then comes speed, prosperity. Man is the slave of machines. It is the age of materialism and there must come the inevitable collapse but the "America" ideal endures and the finale is an anthem for which audiences rose to their feet, joined in the singing...
Spent is the age when rearing spires could dominate a city. Coming up the New York harbor you see many a Wall Street office building, but the towers of Trinity and St. Paul's are visible only after you turn the corner into lower Broadway. If any Gothic soars into the morning, it commemorates not God but the Woolworth five-and-ten cent stores...