Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already long past the age which interests life insurance companies, when his left hand brandisHed the Speaker's gavel before the House of Representatives on March 19, 1910. On that day he fought for the power which echoed from his gavel. For seven years he had told the House what to do, by means of a few terse epigrams and a set of rock-ribbed rules.* Now the House was in revolt against its Tsar. The epigrams were impotent without the rules; so Democrats and insurgent Republicans, led by Representative (now Senator) George W. Norris of Nebraska, made...
Amherst. Hinting that he was fatigued with age, George Daniel Olds, 73, President since 1924 of Amherst College, last week resigned. Kindly, gentle, popular, he had several times been acting president of Amherst before, also Dean (1909-22). His election to his definite presidency was as immediate successor to Alexander Meiklejohn, tempestuous radical, who now teaches in the University of Wisconsin...
...Grand Lama of Tibet, most fundamental of Fundamentalists, has bowed to Science. His mystery palace, the Potala, at Lhasa, now flashes with electricity, according to epochal word just received. Age after age, the grand Lama's seclusion has been a byword to awe. Lhasa, the Forbidden City-what European had seen it? A few 18th Century Capuchin friars; persistent but mostly unsuccessful 19th Century explorers. Not until 1904, under armed expedition of Col. Francis E. Younghusband, was there any adequate description. Since then things have moved faster in the Buddhist Mecca...
...himself left him unmoved. Sociably inclined, he had to contend with his fondness for people to get his work done. His love and respect for his children was immense. A keen sportsman in youth, he could hardly bear to dissect pigeons later. The favorite game of his gentle, invalid age is referred to in a letter: "Now the tally with my wife in backgammon stands thus: she, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games while I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2.795 games!" A pious country Woman, on hearing that he would go to hell for his beliefs, replied...
...poetry. Imprisonment for his part in the Revolution in 1642 could not quench his ardor nor still his lyre, and he sang unceasingly of his Aramantha or his Lucasta. His lyrics have all the freshness of the Elizabethan morning, and breathe the spirit of liberty that characterized his age and is the keynote of the work of such of his followers as Byron and Shelley...