Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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YALE SQUAD STATISTICS NameClass Position Age Wt. Ht. School Charleworth, J.H. 29 Center 28 192 6 Exeter Cox, D.B. 28 Back 21 184 6 Loomia Crile, J.A. 29 End 19 170 5-10 Hotchkiss Decker, E.L. 29 Back 20 186 5-10 Andover Eddy, M.H. 29 Tackle 20 190 6-1 Exeter Fishwick, D.B. 28 End 21 180 6-2 Glen Ridge Fisherty, J.P. 28 Tackle 23 195 5-11 Lawrenceville Foote, A.S. 28 Back 21 175 5-10 Andover Garvey, J.J. 29 Back 21 175 5-11 Roxbury Goodwine, Earle 28 Back 22 160 5-8 Hill Greene...
...father's unforgotten lusts. Under this final strain of horror, her mind crumbles into delirium. When she recovers, Theodosia goes to the country to live with her aunt. Here another nightmare threatens her with black hands. Her aunt, in the narrow bitterness of old age, sustains her hatred of life upon meager leathery biscuits. The house is overun with savage dogs, the descendants of the hounds with which Theodosia's uncle had once hunted across the wide fields. At last, drugged with horror, Theodosia goes into the back country to teach school. Hearing the small voices of children...
...age of 27 he was private secretary to Field Marshal Lord Haig (then Sir Douglas Haig). At 30 he was Parliamentary Secretary to the then Premier David Lloyd George. It was while acting in this capacity immediately after the War that he was host to the Supreme War Council at his gorgeous home at Port Lympne, Kent. He is also a trustee of the National and Tate (art) Galleries, the Wallace (art) collection and of the British School at Rome...
...Novelty came from Vienna, special import for Maria Jeritza. Erich Korngold, so it seemed, wrote it at the precocious age of 16; called it Violanta after his heroine, a lovely enough Venetian lady who hated and lusted and loved and died in such swift turn as to gray the hair of any onlooker. Jeritza played it for all there was there, took every phrase, every mood, tight between her teeth, shook them hard, tried to make them answer back, got small return...
...genesis of modern America is a public whose members were in active life when the events which Sullivan records were taking place; they are amused by the book because in a way it is a tablet of personal reminiscences. The younger people of today, however, the people of college age, form the real vanguard of Sullivan's larger public. They hear witness to the success of his experiment, for he has re-created a period of transition for them, a period with which they have had little or no direct contact...