Word: oldish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erupted: "It is detestable," said one, "to advance the age of anxiety in such a manner." Said the Paris-Presse: "They have created a competition for little monsters." Last week Education Minister René Billeres backed down, promised to give the flunked eleven-year-olds a more eleven-year-oldish exam...
...problem of political payoffs proved worrisome to Kubitschek even before his inauguration. In making up his Cabinet, he had to consider the claims of political allies and his need for strong congressional support. What emerged after many hours was a line-up that seemed somewhat oldish and politico-ridden for a new administration with a dynamic program. Snapped Rio's Correio da Manhã: "Faced with the choice between a great Cabinet and Congressional majority, Senhor Kubitschek chose the latter." In at least two key Cabinet posts, however, Kubitschek placed his first choices: as Finance Minister, shrewd Federal Deputy...
...left them, and her mother supported the three daughters by working as a practical nurse. But the love of literature flourished on empty stomachs. When Edna was 14, her poems began to appear in St. Nicholas Magazine; when she was 20, Renascence made her famous. She was an oldish 21 when a benefactor sent her to Vassar, a school she at first disliked: "They treat us like an orphan asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother for a Bible ("You know it by heart...
...trying," said Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr., "to do away with the oldish elements that have crept into our operations." And so the Hearst empire was getting the biggest shaking up in years. As the "oldish elements" were swept out, so were many of the oldish ideas of the late W. R. Hearst...
Unlike Saki (H. H. Munro), however, Author Wilson builds the surprise around the corner almost invariably on one or the other of two things-the frustration and humiliation of oldish, plainish women, or the twisted compulsions of sexual perversion. With these dark themes, he sets out to expose a whole gallery of frauds, hypocrites, opportunists and pretentious bores. The result is a fearsome commentary on the viciousness and depravity of humankind...