Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forty years of age...
They were to find a "native" theme. Indians? Witchcraft? Skyscrapers? No, the most native to U. S. spirit, decided Miss Millay, is the old Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit. Mr. Taylor would write his music true to the hunt, the forest, the clash of sword, the misty superstitions, the feudal ideals of loyalty...
Cost. "The present cost of medical education, the number of years before men can be selfsupporting, and the age at which students graduate, averaging around 27, are driving many bright men into other professions."?Dr. Mayo...
...legitimate heir* caused him to divorce Josephine, marry Marie Louise of Austria. Said he, on hearing of the prolific reproductivity of Marie Louise's ancestors: "That's the kind of a womb I want to marry." Marie Louise bore him a son, L'Aiglon, who died at the age...
...Author. Emil Ludwig began to write plays at the age of 15 and, despite dabblings in law and business, continues to do so at 46. Quite naturally, he plunged into dramatic biographies to achieve his greatest works. Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly...