Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From that, era when "we think we were really steeped in sin," It was but a short time until "the shadow of the college boards cropt among us and the college group began to sink on its flat heels...
...historical movies facts are changed to suit the plot. "The House of Rothschild" is no exception, but the story gains by the alteration. Author Westley, a Boston Transcript editorial man, portrays the rise of the financial house, the orgination of branch banking, and the economic crises of the Napoleonic era with an eye for dramatic incidents...
...there they became fast friends. Colonel Hammond stayed in the Army, serving in most of the important South American legations, later becoming identified with oil, railroads & banking. The promoter got into the prizefight business and made the name of Tex Rickard one of the most spectacular in a spectacular era. Colonel Hammond in 1923 helped Rickard raise the $7,000,000 necessary to move Madison Square Garden away from Madison Square and house it 25 blocks uptown in an arena the like of which had never been seen before. Rickard died when the era died six years later, and Colonel...
...against the stury fortress of Namur, represent the hysterical attempt of our brethren to shake off the "irons of serfdom". Using for a criterion the old Harvard Herald which subsided into silence in 1883, the prevailing tone of the issue represents not only the spirit of a by-gone era but also the general effect of a much used trick...
...that shortly after 1920 we should enter upon the "ethereal phase", approaching the ultimate end when generation would die and be born in the world of thought so rapidly so t be almost indistinguishable. A jaunt through this month's "Advocate" ,the might persuade the historian the the ethereal era had in fact arrived...