Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Starting with the "A's", they called up every house, inquiring for "Miss" Abbott, "Miss" Abernathey," "Miss" Apley. If a "Miss" was there, she was subjected to a cross-questioning on her age and whether she would attend the Freshman dance...
...conditions which affect the length of life in the lowly Daphnia carry over to man, and are reflected in human longevity, persons who lead very frugal lives until past middle age and then have generous living, may be expected to live longest. . . . People who have generous living until old age approaches and then have very frugal living or suffer real hardship, may be expected to have shorter lives...
...reason, except that some future age may star a Jeanette MacDonald in a film of the war. Cast opposite Allan Jones, a spy for the French Army with whom she inconveniently but most romantically falls in love, in appropriate Spanish milien, she sings and dances her way to a victory for Wellington and the liberation of Spain. Other good performances are turned in by Warren William and Douglas Dumbrille as opposing members of the military profession. Yet Jeanette is the sole raison d'etre of the picture, and as a good performance of hers it deserves attention...
...play as a whole is probably as enthusiastic a eulogy of American democracy as this uncertain, critical, qualifying age will allow...
When the Yale Daily News attained the age of sixty a few days ago, its editors contented themselves with printing President Roosevelt's "hearty congratulations," the Vassar Miscellany's "AVID INTEREST IN YALE DAILY NEWS STOP THINK ITS SWELL PAPER," and nineteen other testimonials. Rejoicing took the place of retrospection, and the editors never asked themselves if three score years had proven college journalism to be worth the candle...