Word: older
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Richard Whitney, onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange, was suspended from the Exchange last month for insolvency and theft of customers' securities, his older brother, Morgan Partner George Whitney, was in Florida on vacation. Wall Street took this as prima-facie evidence that George Whitney knew nothing of the pending debacle. Last week this view was considerably modified...
...sexual instincts of mankind have been linked by eminent psychoanalysts who believe that when either is thwarted there are sad consequences. An extraordinary confirmation of this theory was noted last week by Tokyo's Asahi. Ryuichi Yoshikawa, a 27-year-old painter in Osaka, begged his parents and older brother to let him marry a geisha girl. They refused. That night, while the family slept, Ryuichi got a heavy knife and methodically chopped off the heads of his father, mother, sister, brother, sister-in-law, six-year-old nephew and three-year-old niece...
...University Committee on Seals, Arms, and Diplomas has resolved that the tight-necked commencement gown now in use is very uncomfortable and not as dignified as the older type still used abroad...
...older type with open front and the shorter knee length which does not wrap around the ankles is going to be used this year. The crimson piping, formerly used on the gowns of class officers, has been discarded on the grounds that it has no academic significance...
...late year about this time, when the students sit on the steps in the twilight smoking, when their lady friends sit with them in open cars, when all music is a waltz, when the little girls tie blue ribbons in their pigtails, and older sisters walk together laughing in the darkness. It was when shouting ragamuffins go roller skating up the street, and older brothers hang up their trousers at night to keep the press in, when a roommate borrows the car to go to Wellesley, when the debutantes read poetry, when the moon is a soft, golden cartwheel...