Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many went to college tell them you don't give a darn as long as they read TIME every week. We didn't have to go to a college to learn how to make money and that is what counts in this day and age...
...must to all men, Death came to Mrs. Annie Oakley ("Little Sureshot") Butler, 66, most marked markswoman in history, at Greenville, Ohio, after long illness. She had directed that they cremate her remains; bury her ashes in Darke County, Ohio, where she began handling firearms at a tender age to supply her widowed mother with game...
...Question: Wherefore the long-lasting potency of Governor Hunt? Perhaps it is because he was as strong as an ox and is as bald as a turtle; more likely it is because he has grown with Arizona and shaped it. In 1881 he arrived in Globe, Ariz., at the age of 21, penniless, professionless. First he became a waiter, then a cowpuncher, then a successful businessman. For 14 years before Arizona became a state, he served in the legislature; put through bills forbidding women in the saloons and banning gambling, thereby striking at the social life of the territory...
Wilhelm II welcomed recently to his estate at Doorn the German Monarchist Herr Oldenburg-Januschau. Shortly before dinner Herr Oldenburg-Januschau remarked that it was creditable of Feldmarshall von Hindenburg to have assumed the cares of the Presidency in his old age...
...gulch; here, in the broader valley, a scattered group of yearlings and dry cows; there, proudly alone, a burly young bull; there, ponderous and patriarchal, respectfully attended by his consorts, an old herd leader with a hump like a hillock, beard to the ground and the gleam of fretful age in his small red eyes...