Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Simultaneously a raging crowd of Fascists were paying no attention to the sex or age of his would-be assassin. As a policeman tried to drag her to safety, sharp fingernails clawed at her neck, her arms. The mob was on the point of ending her life by crunching slimy means...
...ready for the Metropolitan? She was indignant, protested last week against the system which would permit of such a premature Metropolitan debut. Said she: "No singer should be subjected to such a test without at least ten years' preparatory work on other stages. . . . Too much publicity at an early age and not enough hard work are the ailments affecting the present generation of vocal students. When I was a student every waking hour was spent in study. Now there seem to be so many diverting influences that it is a wonder singers are produced at all. To become a great...
...campaign continued so well that three months ago the College of Physicians of Edinburgh restored to him his diploma. Friends urged the General Council for immediate restoration. It might consider the matter at its next semi-annual meeting in June. Last week Dr. Axham died in old age, and posthumous re-establishment would be unprecedented in England...
...age of 17, Jay Gould won the national court tennis championship from Charles E. Sand. He became the sporting sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all, for he had heard the laconic comment of Major Cooper Key that "America has put the brains of a veteran into a youth of 17." Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team...
...Author. Born in Goshen, Mass., 46 years ago, Clarence Hawkes lost a leg at the age of nine and, four years later, both eyes. Afield to try a new gun, the boy strayed from his father, stumbled in swampy land, discharged his weapon into his own face and had to struggle two miles to the highway alone...