Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...described the condition in language such as a dog-musher is supposed to be complete master of. Then, pausing for breath, he said, "And how is it where your way?" Without a moment's hesitation the Bishop, "Just the same as you describe." At the next roadhouse the old-timer was much chagrined when told that he had passed the bishop on the trail and had used unseemly language in the presence of the well-loved churchman...
...Senate last week by a vote of 57 to 26 disposed of two old constitutional questions in such a way that they may never again arise to plague another balky Congress. They were: 1) the 1930 census; 2) reapportionment of the House of Representatives...
...Wicked old women have always had uses for foolish young men. The "use to which old Mrs. J. C. Powers, 65, of Macon, Ga., put her young men would have done credit to a medieval witch. A widow, she took in boarders. She advertised for a "willing young man" to help with the chores, drive her car. Six weeks ago one James Parks, 25, and one Earl Manchester 21, answered her notice. She hired them both. Parks was the more stupid of the two, Manchester the harder. She insured Parks's life for $7,000, with a double indemnity...
...ship is at present being overhauled, and it is planned to turn it in early in the fall, when another plane will be purchased, a Travelair like the old one, but somewhat more expensive, which, it is expected, will be kept by the Club for several years. The new plane will be flown by members of the Club to Boston from Wichita, Kansas, the home of the manufacturers, early in the fall. Those who will probably make the trip are H. P. Moon '32 and H. H. Timken '31, both experienced pilots...
...only really nasty comments have come from the professionals--an occasional politician, evangelical clergyman and editorial writer--who, of course, have to say what their publics expect them to say, the old line about Lincoln, King George III' and the Declaration of Independence, which does not seem to me to be particularly applicable. I have been an editorial writer myself, and knew that nothing is easier and juicier than to be able to take a high-minded and critical 'one when somebody has told an unpopular truth. As for my younger brethren at Harvard, on the Crimson...