Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, most of us know how Dr. Eliot backed President Wilson's war measures to the end. Most of us know of his attitude on a few major social questions. We have read of his courageous defence of Prohibition, his ability and willingness to change his mind at the age of nearly ninety...
...mother told me that I was not cut out for a paper doll, that I had larger things to do than wash other peoples poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described...
...sartorial splendor of "Old Bob." On the opening day of Congress, "Young Bob" was one of the few Senators who appeared in a cutaway and spats. He is steeped in the ideas of his father after ten years' service as his private secretary. All he needs now is age and some of "Old Bob's" imaginative and oratorical rockets...
Folk whom an age of exaggeration has not robbed of their capacity to marvel at superlatives, or to criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and designs -assembled by an architect whose livelihood and reputation are in the building of skyscrapers, Alfred C. Bossom. When Manhattan should have gazed its fill, the exhibition was to go on tour...
Died. Claude Monet, 86, chief painter of the impressionists; in Giverny, France. After early discouragements from his father and the critics, he won, some time before old age, universal recognition for his singularly poetic landscapes, examples of which are frequent in U. S. museums. Georges Clemenceau, his life-long friend, was with him at the end, inconsolable...