Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, is the third son of Queen Victoria. A shy, sensitive man, he has been less in the public eye than any other Prince of the British Blood Royal. His career has been for the most part spent in the Army. At the age of 20 he served in Canada in suppressing the Fenian raid and later saw active service in Egypt. Rising by easy royal stages, he finally achieved the not unmerited rank of a Field Marshall...
Herr Piscator smiled, mumbled something about "Wilhelm" growing reizbar (touchy) in his old age, stated that he saw no difference in the former All Highest being photographed for the cinema (which the Emperor-King Wilhelm is always willing to do), declared that he would produce the play and "damn the consequences...
...stayed at the Metropolitan through the "Golden Age" when Gadski, Nordica, the de Reszkes, David Bispham and Schumann-Heink were making German music, when Fritzi Scheff was the bait for tired starched magnates, when berthas and hourglass figures were the fashion...
...tones to his listeners. In old people, the receiving apparatus of the ear becomes less elastic than in youth; it does not respond quickly to short waves (shrill) sounds. Words or notes of music following in fast succession run together and cannot be distinguished. The condition is presbyotia (old age hearing). Presbyotes cannot hear cricket chirps, nor high pitched yodeling...
...country is sufficiently bad to make up for the smaller quantity consumed. . . . We may summarize our findings as follows: that the Prohibition period is characterized by sharply declining mortality rates among children and adolescents of both sexes, and that this decline is continued over a number of additional age periods among women. The improvement is retarded among young male adults and disappears altogether during the middle years of life in that sex. In fact, the mortality has definitely risen among men after the age...