Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office on Jan. 1, 1921,* members of women's clubs pointed with pride to his seven daughters, claimed that he had established a world's record for U. S. Governors. Last week the new Governor of South Carolina took office. He has nine daughters. Their names and ages: NAME AGE...
...Golden Age is now, For now gold buyeth all. -OVID...
...defendants alleged that the Abbé des Noyers had been a member of their cult, but had later withdrawn and turned his sorceries against them. During the trial Defendant Maurice Lourdin, pointing at the Abbé, cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . , He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. . . ." "He afflicted me with shameful diseases," testified Defendant Henri Froger. "We women," testified Mme. Robert, "were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorceries...
...committees or in its work, we shall find but few who do not profit in some way by the giving or accepting its service. Much of its work is of the sort that cannot be cried from the house tops, and so it is that in this age of advertisement the question may some times be asked "What does the Phillips Brooks House Association do?" The answer is, "It is quietly and deliberately carrying out the policy of its founders in promoting Plety, Charity, and Hospitality...
...liberty which he encountered there. To be precipitately placed on one's own resources and forced to rely on one's own sense of responsibility after a life of prescribed conduct is disastrous to many an individual. It is foolish to assume that a boy arrives suddenly at an age which qualifies him to judge all things relating to his own conduct for himself. It is difficult to say how we may remedy a too paternalistic attitude on the part of families but private preparatory schools could administer progressively larger and larger doses of liberty during the last year...