Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...area Australia is almost exactly the size of the United States. Her entire population is a little less than that of New York City. To defend this enormous area, the Australian conscription law provided that boys must register at the age of 14, that those physically able must serve as citizen soldiers between the age of 17 and 21, must drill two hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just...
Birthday. Queen Marie of Rumania; at Balcic. Age...
...Iron Age in Europe", Professor Tozzer, Semitic...
Last year, racked with rheumatism, he said: "I think journalism is the worst of all professions. It is precarious, remuneration is very low, one's position is, as a rule, reduced by old age, and of all the brilliant things a journalist may write none will be remembered permanently. Although I have had some success in journalism. I agree with the verdict my friend, John Morley,* rendered when he spoke of me as having had a squandered life." Twinkling, he added: "Any man is a damned fool who can work in bed and doesn...
Birthday. Robert Bridges, poet laureate of England; in London. Age: 85. To celebrate, he published a 4,000-line, four-part poem entitled The Testament of Beauty, his first large work in 39 years. Of it, the London Times said: ". . . The outpouring of the accumulated wisdom, experience, scholarship and poetic craftsmanship of one of the richest and mellowest spirits of our time...