Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article . . . on Frank Lloyd Wright, America's justly famous, world-re-nowned architect was most interesting and fair. The colored portrait I am framing for my room as the foremost masterbuilder of the age along with the foremost composer, Jean Sibelius...
...workers, showing how sick the people of the U. S. actually are. From the health and economic records of 2,660,000 individuals living in every part of the U. S. and every type of community, of every economic level of society and every age group, Surgeon General Parran prepared a preliminary report, which he communicated last week to State and local health officers for their information & guidance. Presuming as he did that the 130,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. went through just what the 2,660,000 did, then...
...afterward he was set free-75 and still surprisingly spry. Two months later he was arrested in Wilmington, Del. for stealing two bedspreads. Three months after that sentence expired, he stole a suitcase from an automobile. So last week he was in trouble again. Joe Buzzard's venerable age saved him from Delaware's famed whipping post. Chief Justice Daniel Layton's remarks as he sentenced him to two more years, however, were sufficiently humiliating: "You're old enough to know better." Joe Buzzard agreed. The suitcase for whose theft he began his 14th jail term...
...great age and snowy beard of Sergius did not save him from figuring in Pravda and Izvestia as "a participant in orgies who had disgraceful relations with nuns." Frail old Vitalius was put down for "wrecking, espionage and other subversive activities." The official newsorgan Gorkovskaya Kommuna affirmed that the Brotherhood of Sobriety, an organization of young Orthodox girls, was founded by church dignitaries to recruit young women to become the sweethearts of Army & Navy men and wheedle military secrets to be sold to Germany and Japan. One Orthodox bishop was described flatly as a "Japanese agent...
...people in time of crisis would inevitably lead us into war, the people being too stupid and impressionable to withstand harmful propaganda. If this is so, then why was the proportion of voluntary enlistment during the last war higher among college students than among any other similar age group in the whole country? Evidently, a college education is no guarantee of being unimpressionable with respect to propaganda...