Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Live" magazine delves into the past of an American tavern girl who would become a lady; that she never quite succeeds until age has given her a dignity that might well pass as gentility is immaterial, for the course of her peregrinations on her quest provide a bonanza of risque and highly humorous situations...
...special taxes of $417,500,000 ($89,000,000 more than the amount of all taxes that U. S. railroads pay). Truck manufacturers represented were Autocar, Baker-Raulang, Brockway, Diamond T, Divco-Twin, Dodge, Federal, Ford, Four Wheel Drive, Fruehauf Trailers, General Motors, International Harvester, Mack, Marmon-Herrington, Pak-Age-Car, Reo, Sterling, Studebaker, Truck-tor, Walker, Walter and White. Motor-makers were Aircooled Motors Corp., Buda, Continental, Cummins, Hercules, and Waukesha. Represented, too, were some 75 body, wheel, accessory and fuel companies...
...Concertgoers who had long marveled at Pianist Rosenthal's strength, speed and musical under-standing now marveled at his endurance. Many a great virtuoso of the keyboard has bitten the dust since 1888. But lion-jawed Moriz Rosenthal could still teach tricks to pianists half his age, still held his place among the world's top pianists...
Twitted about his age, lusty, muscular Moriz Rosenthal replies: "A man is young if a lady can make him happy or unhappy. He enters middle age when a lady can make him happy, but no longer unhappy. He is old and gone if a lady can make him neither happy nor unhappy. Well, I am still a young...
...Black Book is primarily a volume of lamentations, breedings, prophecy, in which coarse, brutal or banal happenings at the hotel launch thoughts on the sickness of the age...