Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parisians were determined to honor their own heroes as they had honored Lindbergh eleven months before. The members of the U. S. legation turned out in full force. Government officials cried and kissed the aviators; the older ones had never expected to see them again. People in Paris stood outside their shops talking, laughing . . . you couldn't walk along the Champs Elysees. The Government decreed a special stamp for Costes and Lebrix...
...Kent, writing of the older party, traces its growth through the past 136 years, notes its achievements and its blunders, comments on its present condition of legarthy and ventures to look into the future. He considers at some length the men whom he considers outstanding--Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, Bryan, and Wilson. A newspaper man, his style is concise, simple, dramatic...
...customary discussion of younger generation v. older generation and of adolescent sex-difficulties was attended to by U. S. Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice...
When Henry Pomeroy Davison became a Morgan partner he was 42 years old; 30 years younger than the late John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913); three months older than the present John Pierpont Morgan...
...most of the churches which are interested. These don't want annual deputations. Besides, there is some question as to the value of a college deputation. College men are more nearly qualified to talk to boys at schools and Y. M. C. A.'s than to gatherings of older people in church...