Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jail." Around Pleasanton, Kans. (pop. 1,200), Hall's father was regarded as a fine lawyer but a hard man who once exacted as his fee in a homicide case his acquitted client's whole 600-acre farm. Carl Austin Hall had a mentally deficient older brother who died at five in a mental institution, sent there because "the folks didn't want Carl brought up around him." But as a boy, Carl himself was always in trouble, always trying to cheat someone, always bragging about how he would one day make big money without working. When...
...well built as any in the U.S., but the worst are dark, prisonlike antiques which stand wall-to-wall with brick tenements and factory buildings, and offer little play space other than the littered and noisy streets. Over a hundred are more than 50 years old; many are older...
...long and difficult way in the century and a half since its forerunner, the Free School Society, was established by public subscription to educate the children of the poor. The school used the Lancasterian method-a system by which children taught younger students, and were in turn taught by older students, thus making it possible, at least in theory, for one teacher to educate 500 pupils at a total annual expenditure of but $3 a head...
Artie is, he says, both older and wiser. With his balding head now shaved ascetically, he is far from the distraught young hero who deserted his bandstand and disappeared into Mexico 14 years ago, and far, he says, from the compulsive husband who married and divorced six times.* Part of the change, Artie thinks, came from thinking a lot of things out in a self-analytical autobiography, The Trouble With Cinderella, which he wrote on his dairy farm at Pine Plains, N.Y. In the book, he described his zooming rise from Manhattan's Lower East Side...
...Stanton fought cases as he was later to fight the war: to win. When Congressman Dan Sickles killed his wife's lover on a Washington street, Stanton got him acquitted on grounds never before used in a U.S. trial-temporary insanity.-In another case, he brusquely superseded an older lawyer assigned to the case and made the closing argument himself. The older lawyer was Abe Lincoln, and after he heard Stanton, he said: "I'm going home to study-study...