Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even very much like wee Grace Goodhue, who rode in her tall springy baby carriage of the period and looked out with wide, serious eyes upon the Vermont world and thought it a fascinating place, "Having no brothers or sisters for playmates and with no little girls of similar age and tastes in her neighborhood, she nevertheless did not feel the loss of companionship, because of the devotion of her own play-loving mother...
Emil Jannings, foremost German cinema actor: "I do not remember New York, as I left Brooklyn, my birthplace, for Germany at the age of one. I have returned to make pictures for a year in Hollywood, following my success with U. S. audiences in Passion, The Last Laugh, Variety. Debarking from the S. S. Albert Ballin in Manhattan, I carried my pet mocking bird in a cage. Warned by newsgatherers not to let Hollywood 'get' me, I replied: 'Ah, I am Jannings! I go to Hollywood. I am still Jannings...
...academic descendants of John Harvard, who preceded his fellow-Cantabridgians to this country.... We are glad that we have reached the age when we can talk things over with our parents...
...those who have education on their minds as well as in their hearts is to find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized. Such humanization, like all else of a remedial nature, must, however, come from within. Neither the author of "The Plastic Age" nor a writer for "Liberty" can produce the panacea. They have not the background, dull and dry though it most certainly...
...Robins started working at the age of ten on a Florida farm; later he spent several years training himself for the bar. After practicing for several years in San Francisco, he embarked on the Klondike gold rush, from which he returned financially independent for life...