Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These young men have been accustomed to consider themselves superior to their female counterparts. But Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe has now sternly ruled that each gigolo must obtain a license and carry an identity card exactly similar to those issued to common prostitutes.
4) "I state definitely that the Democratic party if intrusted with power will be opposed to any general tariff bill. . . . I definitely pledge that the only change I will consider in the tariff will be specific revisions in specific schedules, each considered on its own merits by an impartial commission...
"Italian journalism is free because it serves only the cause and the regime. . . . Elsewhere the press is at the orders of plutocratic groups and vested interests, such as public utilities and the steel industry; elsewhere the press is reduced to buying and selling sensational news, whose reiterated reading causes in...
Actuaries consider 65 the beginning of chronological old age. The U. S. has about 5,500,000 people above 65. Some 1,680,000 are at least 75; 240,000 at least 85; 60,000 at least 90. In 1,920 the U. S. had 4,267 centenarians.
Meanwhile, and all summer long, the Van Sweringen brothers ? Oris Paxton, 49, and Mantis James, 47?sat high in their 54-story steel & limestone railroad tower domineering over Cleveland. Their apart- ment there in the air is charming.+ Charming, too, are they as individuals?courteous, manly, straightforward. Babbitt Clevelanders...