Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pacifiers of the anthracite coal strike of 1923. Last spring he aspired to be a U. S. Senator, ran a poor third to Messrs. Vare and Pepper in the primaries. Now Mr. Pinchot is without a job; perhaps he will retire to the philosophic pleasures of old age; more likely he will prepare for the next opportunity to do his phoenix trick...
...something portentous out of REVELATION. Or it may begin with so different a thing as Lewis Carroll's "You are old, Father William," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; " And yet you incessantly stand on your head- "Do you think, at your age, it is right...
That is one reason why more people are now dying of heart diseases, kidney diseases and cancer (characteristic maladies of middle age and senescence) than died a generation ago. Formerly people who would have had these ailments died young. But, in the case of heart diseases, the hazard of death has been actually increasing. Louis Israel Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. stressed this fact in the current Harper's. According to him. out of 100 ways of dying, a boy of ten now has 19 chances of dying eventually from heart diseases...
...bartender gave his name as H. H. Tammen. He had started life as a waif, he said, who had found shelter in a Philadelphia saloon, where he became cuspidor and errand boy at the age of seven. It was warm in the saloon, there was free food and from the beer-spotted newspapers left by customers he had learned how to read. He was, he guessed, clever as a kid, for he had risen swiftly to heights of bartending. Before he was 21 he had reigned over a prodigious expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right...
...openly expressed, lest observers from other nations should form the erroneous opinion that sentiment was at times divided on major issues in our national politics, would have been a succulent morsel to the political bear-baiters of yesteryear. But they are dead, and in this day and age a pronunciamento from the White House Spokesman becomes imbued with that same mystic sanctity which enshrouds its author...