Word: age
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play; in reality, she survived this episode by twenty-seven years. But no one can read the play and not be convinced that her suicide was the logical, certainly the most artistic ending for her glittering career. The author show an ambitious, ruthless woman, frightened by the approach of age and the failing devotion of the king into the most desperate measures for retaining her remarkable domination. While the king amuses himself with younger, prettier women, La Montespan performs the most diabolical, awful sacrifices in the belief that she can thereby hold the fickle monarch; and M. Rolland has woven...
Lord Robert Cecil, 59 years of age, is the third son of the third Marquis of Salisbury, and belongs to a family which has been consistently and unobtrusively distinguished since the days of Edward VI, when William Cecil, afterward Lord Burghley, became one of the King's Secretaries of State, and later served Queen Elizabeth as Lord High Treasurer of England. Thus for more than 300 years almost every generation of Cecils has given a great man to the State. His great-grandfather was Lord Chamberlain to George III; his grandfather, Lord President of the Privy Council in Lord...
Senator Louis Martin, eager to raise yearly 30,000 more conscripts for the Army, proposed to pass a law prohibiting children, born of a Frenchwoman and a foreign father, claiming the father's nationality at the age of 21. The Senator also proposed to permit Frenchwomen married to foreigners the right to recover their French nationality...
Died. George Chadbourne Taylor, 55, President of the American Railway Express Co., at Pelham Heights, N. Y., of heart disease. Without funds or high influence, he started his career at the age of 17 as the driver of one of the wagons of the Company...
...Education vs. Instruction. "It's a great error on the part of teachers to try to give their students instruction. The days of instruction are numbered. You can't teach young men of college age. But you can give them an opportunity to learn...