Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...francs for them, and can't wait to get it into their hands." Other stories described the emo tional reunions of French mothers with daughters and sons-in-law who had made them grandmothers of small Americans up to ten years of age...
...years, some 3,500,000 U. S. lads over twelve years of age have been Boy Scouts. There are now 856,000 active members and officials. Particularly, do Scouts point with pride to honorary officers. Calvin Coolidge is Honorary President, William Howard Taft, Colin H. Livingstone, Daniel C. Beard* and William G. McAdoo are Honorary Vice Presidents...
...years, Mr. Foy is returning to the vaudeville stage for a farewell tour. The Fallen Star is the vehicle that takes him through the Keith-Albee theatres. This one-act sketch by Tom Barry tells of the plight of a once idolized actor who, in old age, is reduced to the position of doorman. Enthusiastic, Mr. Foy's friends urge him to revive Rip Van Winkle, one of the plays in which Joseph Jefferson toured the country...
...tell the mother of little Horace to tell Horace that his father's last wish was that when he is 25 years of age, he should come to China as a missionary." Horace Tracy Pitkin, Congregational missionary at Paotingfu, Chili Province, China, said this one noisome summer day in 1901 to his faithful Chinese letter-carrier and general servant, Kuo Lao-man. Pastor Pitkin had some months before sent his wife and only child, Horace Collins Pitkin, then a scrappy three-year-old, back to Mrs. Pitkin's home at Troy, Ohio. His command...
Arrow- and spearheads found near Ice Age bison bones near Folsom, N. Mex., seemed a more definite discovery...