Word: ages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Referring to TIME, Aug. 14, under Cinema. Linda Darnell's age is given as 15. Louella O. Parsons' column in the Aug. 20 issue of the Chicago Herald & Examiner, gives her age as 17. The studio for whom she works gives her age as 19. Which is it? ETHEL WAX Kenton, Ohio...
...said so: "If they should be mad enough to attack our western line, streams of blood will flow." They wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah's age, and I'm not sure he'll attain his goal." They wanted praise: "No power on earth has such a munitions industry. None has as good skilled workers. None has such intelligent workers...
...Nothing can be less wise than to allow those hours of darkness to become hours of inactive gloom. The temptation to do this presses heavily on those whose occupations end with daylight and on those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites...
...Nearly half kept a budget; three-fourths had financial plans, often inadequate, for their old age...
...most wanted: 1) a happy married life, 2) financial success, 3) security for old age, 4) a comfortable standard of living, 5) making a good home. Women: 1) a happy married life, 2) a comfortable standard of living, 3) making a good home, 4) children they could be proud of, 5) travel and adventure...