Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mild-mannered don from Oxford, who "used to be a philosopher but has retired now". He becomes interested in the family of an impecunious inventor who has spent his whole life working on ideas which the conservative British government brands impractical or over-ambitious. The inventor's older daughter takes to the chorus and the younger to the teaching of dancing in an eternally losing struggle to make both ends meet. "Tiny", the dancing teacher, falls in love with a wealthy but quite useless young man, whose parents-firmly forbid the match. Here the lovable "Uncle Anyhow" steps...
...older generation is divided into three camps with widely differing opinions. First there are the Nationalists, who are the survivals of the bureaucrats and Junker class left over by the war. They want revenge and a return to military monarchy. Then on the left wing are the Socialists, who stand for reform legislation, labor laws, and international friendship. They correspond in their ideals to your Progressive party and are not at all Marxian in their beliefs. Last of all are the Republicans, the party of the Bourgeoisie, who usually support the Socialists...
...America still demands a business education, but the new gentlemanly class, having made the excellent discovery that business is not everything, have begun, by way of reaction, to express contempt for any knowledge which can possibly be of any social utility. Among this class (still a small one) the older kind of "Oxford culture" is therefore the fashion, and, in spite of the fact that America has the finest indigenous architecture in the world and that Gothic is the least suitable style of building for modern domestic purposes, there is now a marked tendency to erect elaborate imitations of England...
...always easier to mold than ago. His pupils are so much better than their competitors, have developed a style of play so much superior in strokes, tactics and variety to yesterday's that there is mock serious talk of asking them to drop out of the league. Are the older men never to drain the sweet cup of victory? . . . . --Boston Herald
...Older newspapers: The Gazette of Portsmouth, N. H., 1756. The Courant of Hartford, Conn., 1764. The Evening Post of Manhattan...