Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going into professional stamp collecting, 15 into the army, and only two into agriculture, but the vast majority of the class are following expected tracks into business, law, and medicine, while a thoroughly normal 200 remain undecided. Although an extraordinary number of Seniors are still of a very tender age, the bulk of the class have passed their twenty-first and are waiting for their twenty-third birthday. Thirteen are married--a number which, though connotative to the minds of the superstitious, is far from surprisingly large. Lastly some 36 members of the class were born in foreign lands...
Full a half a century and more age...
...Majesty had been paying court to Emma's sister, Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont who, despite the honor, absolutely refused to marry him because of his age and reputation. A well substantiated account tells that 21-year-old Princess Emma burst in upon the pair at the critical moment after His Majesty had been refused...
Died. Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin, 88, famed suffragist; at Bredon's Norton near Tewkesbury, England. She was born in Homer, Ohio, in 1838. At the age of 14 she married one Dr. Canning Woodhull. Soon after his death, when she was 24, she married again, Col. James H. Blood, whom she divorced. She then moved to Manhattan where she became engaged in the brokerage business with her sister, Tennessee Claflin; published a paper know as Woodhull and Claflin''s Weekly. In 1872 they published an article on the personal morality of Henry Ward Beecher, created...
...INGENIOUS HIDALGO! MIGUEL CERVANTES - Hans Ryner - Harcourt, Brace ($2.75). Ingenious also, Arthur Ryner has imagined the biography of Cervantes in the days of his age, when, as he finised Don Quixote and wrote Persiles y Sigismunda, he saw the dear sun waning and Death, be cause he laughed at it, "coming to him like a raillery." Author Ryner has well conjured the situations - Cervantes in Madrid, surrounded by poverty, influential enemies and with Death for a friend in need. Cervantes in Esquivias, draining the gay fountain of his wit, writing a happy and fantastic story as if thus to postpone...