Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt a great event. We would not go quite so far as to say that. But she does give what is on the whole a good performance. The blot on her scutcheon is that in spite of her acting she gives the impression of being about eight years older than the score the play calls...
Composer Weill and Librettist Bertolt Brecht are both 30-three years older than Hero Lindbergh. Weill, a pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly...
...well-trained was he in his craft that Mr. Welliver soon could ape the Harding literary style to the complete bewilderment of the White House newsgatherers. He had another duty: to sit in the executive office lobby and amid much blue cigaret smoke converse in low important tones with older Washington correspondents about White House doings. In each "conversation" was planted the germ-idea of a news story and each story reflected credit upon President Harding...
...previous observations identical twins should be mirror images of each other (TIME, April 9, 1928). A's and O's conduct agree with this. Both have hasty tempers. They have similar likes and dislikes. They worry about the same things. But mentally Ontario O is two years older than London A. Their case points answers to two moot points: heredity governs emotions; environment, intelligence. Couples planning to adopt orphans and concerned with the children's dispositions, by inference would do well to study their ancestral points. Foster parents intent only on raising intelligent children may pick foundlings...
...Harvard's pride in its "indifference" that is offended! It may be that they are resenting this assumption that they are like any other students, that their welfare must be looked after by benevolent despots, and that there is a chance that a number of men a few years older may know a bit more than do the worldly wise students of this university...