Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...older Thomas Moran, ancestor of all, brought his family from Bolton, Lancashire, to Philadelphia in 1844. The boys went to the public schools. The talent of Edward, the eldest, developed first and it was he who first gave lessons to young Thomas after the latter had tried being a wood engraver's apprentice, cabinetmaker, bronzeworker, housepainter, weaver, and mender of looms. Before long, Ruskin saw a plate by Thomas Moran Jr, in a London exhibition and singled it out as the finest contribution from...
...Silberstein, a tailor, and his wife, would listen in awe to their son's condescending accounts of long arguments with Mr. Calisch. They looked at one another anxiously when Emanuel devoured every published detail of the murder of a small Jewish boy, Bobbie Franks, by two intellectual, older Jewish boys, Leopold and Loeb, in Chicago...
Some months ago, James Calisch's landlady heard her lodger in an altercation with young Silberstein. "You're a nut!" ejaculated the older man. "What reasons have you for making such a statement?" demanded the youth, with the pedantic inflection of an adolescent philosopher. "Well," began Mr. Calisch, patient once more, "in the first place-" They had been arguing about a newly-published book on Sigmund Freud. Mr. Calisch had genially called psychoanalysis "rot." Neurotic young Emanuel was furious; he took Freud as glorious gospel. After the quarrel, Mr. Calisch, annoyed by his voluble visitor, told the landlady...
...boys grew older. Destiny, famed goddess, began to play her tricks. Little Malcolm became a civil engineer. In 1924 he horrified good Democrats, supported the Presidential campaign of Robert M. LaFollette the Elder. Last week, at the ripe age of 61, he married Miss Mildred M. Traut, daughter of a Portsmouth, Va. lumber merchant, The wedding ceremony was performed by a Manhattan city clerk in the chapel of the Municipal Building...
Loose Ankles. Stale stuff from older plays, peppery wit, audacious hashing-and Playwright Janney concocts a diverting theatrical creature. A last testament commanding marriage stirs Ann Harper to rebellion. She will hire a gigolo* wherewith to shock this tyrannical family of hers. The scheme seems harmless enough. But when a young, amateurish gigolo appears and Ann plays something by Tschaikoysky on the piano, virulent sentimentality sets in, and the condition of the play becomes critical. Numerous first-nighters reached for their hats. In the nick of time, the scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos...