Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...child wonders. However, I had to follow strict rules, even in the earlier travels of the Miller family, and my mother set aside certain hours for dancing studying music, taking piano lessons, physical exercise and even a course of modern literature which I had to begin reading at the age of ten. Imagine!" exclaimed Marilyn with a grimace, "who wants to deny that I didn't have a pretty tough time of it when...
...chief observation seems to be that its inhabitants are growing older. Insurance statistics are marshalled to prove that the span of life is daily lengthening and that soon it will be proper to send white flowers to the funeral of one who quite his life at the tender age of three score and ton. Roger Bacon in the thirteenth century announced to his rather hostile contempories that all that was necessary to outlive one's friends was a draught of essence of reindeer. Spaniards in the sixteenth century tramped their way to fever and death in the swamps to Florida...
Only, get your red pencil after some words that are ready to be molted from your rather exceptional vocabulary. Grandpa "Potent" and a few of his confreres ought to get well-deserved old age pensions...
...hardly want to begin to put on dog* at my age." Governor Dillon compromised to the extent of putting on semi-"dog." A full dress suit, as Emily Post would confess in higher language, is considered full...
Frederick Remington is dead (1909). For years he painted and modeled life on the Western plains, especially soldiers and Indians, after study at Yale and in New York. Charles Marion Russell is dead (1926). He had lived in Montana since the age of 15, a son of the saddle who knew most of his state from the Tetons to the Yellowstone, most of the cowmen from Great Falls to Miles City, most of the dodges of calves at branding time, steers on the range, cayuses at a rodeo. He modeled and painted the "puncher's" life so well that...