Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since General James G. Harboard's retirement in December, 1922, General Hines has been Deputy Chief of Staff. He is now 56 years old, and has eight years to serve before he must be automatically retired on account of age. Secretary of War Weeks and President Coolidge agreed on him as the logical successor to General Pershing...
...Manning was now an old man. . . . The spare and stately form, the head, massive, emaciated, terrible, with the great nose, the glittering eyes, and the mouth drawn back and compressed into the grim rigidities of age, self-mortification, authority. . . ."LYTTON STRACHEY...
...promptly, for not whining or barking or "playing with other dogs." He was said to go to the bank with his weekly savings, deposit them with the teller, wait for his pass book, trot home. His balance was "$68 with no withdrawals." He was saving "against the infirmities of age...
Another was the travesty of Anthony Comstock, famed moral crusader, published in The Masses for June, 1915. A naked man, in the flabby paunchiness of inactive middle-age, suddenly exposed by the parting of curtains, shrank shamefully away to cover his condition. The title of the picture was : "The Nude Is Repulsive to This...
...naked man in the flabby paunchiness of inactive middle-age...