Word: old
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hottest heat was that between nimble Lady Astor and spry old Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederick Hall, 65. This time the Noble Lady, 50, captured her favorite aisle seat (she lost the race last spring? TIME, July 15). This year, for the first time in the House of Commons, she was hatless...
...tongue-slip was double, for in the absence of Laborite Prime Minister MacDonald, Mr. Snowden was himself the acting Prime Minister. Said he with a wry grimace. "It will take a little time for us to recover from old habits...
...duped!" he raged to reporters. "The cagy old parliamentarian betrayed me ?and they call him the Apostle of Peace! Zut! This Aristide Briand?...
Concluded Advertisingman Klein: "A newspaperman's training-his 'deadline' habit of thinking on his feet-will get him further in a money way in advertising. . . . And why not, brethren? Ask your wives. These newspapermen's wives- almost always superior in brains and breeding to their old school friends riding around in Cadillacs and Studebakers-will tell you that the boys are just trying to believe they're still living in the glamorous...
...flag should not be displayed in schoolrooms because of ''dangerous fetish worship which promotes thoughts of war among school children." Bishop Jones further said that no man could worship at two altars, nationalist and Christian. Cried the Transcript to all patriots: "We are still old-fashioned enough to believe that the clergyman who advocates abandonment of the American flag and what it stands for has no place in American society, whatever his pretensions as a leader in his church. Neither do we believe that he represents his church, or that such doctrine . . . will not be repudiated...