Word: older
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic forces that had led and pushed them. In An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (1913) he probed into the personal motives of the Founding Fathers themselves, suggested that as men of property they had been privately interested in a charter that would protect their own wealth. To older historians, such an approach was blasphemous. Harvard's grizzled Albert Bushnell Hart declared the book "little short of indecent...
...scene was older than Ottawa itself. By Ward Market had been a going concern since the 1840s, when the capital-to-be was known as Bytown,* a lusty lumbermen's town. Here in nine acres of open stalls, some 500 farmers sell their vegetables, chickens, suckling pigs, sides of mutton, raw wool, herbs, honey, eggs, cheese, flowers...
...Harold (Prince Valiant) Foster has stuck by the older and less fashionable tradition of N. C. Wyeth and Howard Pyle. The bloody adventures of his Arthurian prince are crammed with careful details, less dramatic than Caniff's, but also richer...
...horses: "One of these horses is young and wild; that is my New Deal group, backed by organized labor and its sympathizers, the intellectuals; they want to gallop all the time, and I have to put a curb-bit in that horse's mouth. The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman Catholic charger. There are twenty million Catholics in this country...
Born in Alliance, Ohio, Hoiles went to public school because he didn't have any say in the matter, then to a Methodist college. He started work on his older brother's newspaper in Alliance for $2 a week, was making $10,000 a year when they had a falling-out over R.C.'s labor-baiting views. Then R.C. published an anti-union paper in industrial Mansfield, Ohio, sold out (for a profit) after enemies blew up his front porch...