Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, marching beside the mare, knocked the old man to the pavement. The crowd pinned him down. As police dragged the oldster to safety he shrieked: "How dare they do that to a little girl of 13? Poor little innocent-making an exhibition of herself at that tender age! I think it's awful." Unabashed, Lady Godiva calmed her rearing mare, rode...
...snappy articles, the purposeful vacationist concluded that the North was as bad as the South. A dozen southern editors jumped at the chance to cast the stone back. This week, Reporter Ashmore's series begin appearing in papers like the Atlanta Constitution, Birmingham Age-Herald, Charleston News and Courier...
Born. To George Vanderbilt, age 23, scientist, explorer, sportsman, heir to half of the $20,000,000 estate left by his father, the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; and to Lucille Parsons Vanderbilt; a 6-lb. daughter, their first child; in Honolulu...
Died. Evelina du Pont, 98, sister of the late U. S. Senator Henry Algernon du Pont; of old age; in Greenville...
TOCQUEVILLE AND BEAUMONT IN AMERICA-George Wilson Pierson-Oxford ($7.50). In 1835, during Jackson's second administration, Alexis de Tocqueville, an aristocratic radical, published his Of Democracy in America, won instant success in the U. S., France and England. At the age of 25, with his friend Gustave de Beaumont, Tocqueville visited the U. S. He traveled from Green Bay, Wis. to New Orleans, taking notes, talking to bankers, doctors, governors, plain citizens, spent nine months gathering material for a book which required four years to write. In this 852-page study, Author Pierson has carefully retraced the journey...