Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented his case. The doctor argued: "The law of England cannot be so crazy and cruel. ... It cannot possibly be unlawful to avert the consequences of a felonious trespass on a child. In my opinion as an obstetric surgeon it may have been dangerous for a girl of her age to bear a child. Ninety-nine per cent of my colleagues would be agreeable to an operation such as I performed." Many of Britain's best medical men, including old Baron Horder, Physician in Ordinary to the King, trooped to the stand to support him. Said Lord Horder...
...them to study color rather than drawing. "Painting is just getting one spot of color in relation to another spot of color," he would say. "Go out like a savage, as if paint had just been invented. . . . Don't paint thinly as a student. . . . You are at an age when you are supposed to make mistakes. . . . Go after some heads and paint them as hunks of flesh instead of as pretty girls-after all, pretty girls are made out of hunks of flesh...
...were patent-medicine manufacturers and an annual appropriation of $100,000 was regarded as a breath-taking extravagance, George Presbury Rowell started publishing a pocket-size semimonthly journal for advertisers, gave it the chaste title Printers' Ink. U. S. business was feeling the faint stirrings of the machine age. Advertising was destined to become the midwife for mass distribution and Printers' Ink soon became a handmaid for advertisers. Today, Printers' Ink, still pocket-size, is a weekly with 17,803 subscribers who spend nearly all of the nation's annual $1,768,000,000 na tional...
...collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from 19 to 65. Meanwhile, his writers turned out a script for a "rollickin', rootin', tootin', shootin' drama of the Great Outdoors...
...make up his mind, Judson permitted both to keep house and cook his meals for three weeks. One day he received a letter from Philip Bauer of Brooklyn. "I would like to correspond with the lady who may be the loser," said Philip, "I am 44 years of age and would be interested in a decent person. ..." This week Judson chose May, Nellie went home, Philip got neither. Reason: Philip was already married...