Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of them Tammany politicians but with a sprinkling of the general public. A girl, just "a" girl, had the chair next him. He had never seen her before, did not know her name (Edna Ryder) but he talked with her from time to time. He looked thoughtful, years older than when he voted in the morning. He heard the encouraging early bulletins and the later, foreboding ones, without comment...
Engaged. Oliver Malcolm Wallop, onetime Yale poloist, second son of the Earl & Countess of Portsmouth, of Barton House, Morchard Bishop, Devonshire, England; and Jean Moore, daughter of Edward Small Moore, Manhattan capitalist (cans, biscuits, railways, banks). At the death of his older brother in 1925, Young Wallop's father succeeded to the Earldom. Formerly he had been a Wyoming rancher, a naturalized U. S. citizen...
...ineffective best she can do for an incongruous brood gliding serenely off to midpond. Mr. Meadows was a very nice old hen, his scuttlings were well-bred, his cacklings mellifluous. In a charming London house he brought up his daughters and entertained their friends. But when his dependable older daughter began to champion one of these, a violent young political laborite; and his darling younger daughter confessed she had allowed another, a scandalous man-about-town, to make love to her, he scuttled and flapped. In spite of his exertions, one daughter (not the one he had suspected...
...brother, traps his eager senses, torments his touchy conscience, abandons him to suicide. Author Gibbs does not prove the necessity of something more than a "Great Design" behind evolutionary progress, but he does write an engrossing story packed with engaging data on the younger generation full of life, the older generation full of ideas, and the oldest generation full of monkey glands...
...test results with the records made by the men in college show that in no case did the two show more than a fifty per cent correspondence. The endeavor to diagnose by psychology what value a student will obtain from a college education was no more efficacious than the older method of testing his knowledge by examinations...