Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Who's Who gives Dame Melba's age as 60; the New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 65; while many press despatches insisted she "is said to be 76." Her own estimate...
...department of health, issued a bulletin last week which contained an interesting fact and an atrocious example of medical wit. The fact concerned conjugality: married men live longer than single men, longer than divorced men. Dr. Bundesen supported this statement with statistics gathered from four groups, arranged according to age. Then, by way of summary, he offered the sample of his** humor...
...seems that marriage is certainly good for the health when we consider the young fellows of 65 and over. Out of 1,000 of these divorced boys, 116 play harps in heaven; out of 1,000 single fellows of the same age group, 112 enter the angelic host; while out of 1,000 married youngsters of the same age-group, only 80, with 'storm and strife' to contend with, knock at St. Peter's Pearly Gates...
...Book.* Here is retold the story of two ancients and a man of middle age who, in 1295 A. D., returned to their native Venice after an absence of 26 years, so changed that they had to beat their way into their own house past forgetful relatives. They drove doubt from their listeners' minds by many changes of rich raiment during a banquet they straightway held, and by slitting seams of the rags they had arrived in and pouring forth heaps of jade, diamonds, rubies and other stones of the Far East. Even then they were not fully believed...
...then, with any jingoistic faith in huge national armaments but with a been realization that peace like the city of Romulus and Remus cannot be built in a day one is perpetually urged by the conditions of his age to wonder how best and with the least friction there can be maintained as a part of American education sufficient interest in and knowledge of modern warfare as to insure national integrity in whatsoever arises...