Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brisbane, 62, wrote: "Marvelously ugly, completely bald, physically feeble, spiritually a giant, it is pleasant to know that D'Annunzio is happy in his old age, and that with genius, as with common men, there is no fool like an old fool...
...Belgian wounded under her care, she conspired with Prince Reginald de Croy to smuggle into Holland numerous Allied soldiers for whom he contrived to forge passports. Arrested by the German Military Police, she confessed to abetting the escape into Holland of some 175 Britons, Frenchmen and Belgians of military age...
...world to swim across; when her tug, the Alsace, had taken her around to Dover and the crowd was shouting on the pier-a customs official came aboard. For an hour he kept the whole party waiting while he asked questions. What was her name? Her race? Her age? He turned to the stout, red-faced individual beside her. Would he be good enough to state his profession? "Potztausend!" cried Father Ederle, looking hungrily at the gaunt official, "I am a butcher. . . ." He had not, on the long slow trip, behaved like one. As Gertrude Ederle, having splashed through...
...Dean" in reference to the Diplomatic Corps is applied in a purely technical sense to that representative of longest residence in the particular locality in question. Don Riano became First Secretary of the Spanish Legation in 1900 and his resignation lets drop the mantle of age upon the shoulders of Belgian Ambassador Baron Emile de Cartier de Marchienne...
...conspicuous as staunch backer of the Coolidge Administration on every issue except farm relief. But Iowa perhaps prefers radicals. Mr. Cummins was growing old and peaceful, so Smith Wildman Brookhart was chosen to succeed him as Republican Senatorial candidate this year. A faint flicker of the joys of old age must have come to Senator Cummins when he read the news of his defeat, eyes were strained from studying long documents, his face was lined, his hair was white; he was 76-but now he would retire to the quiet home of his two spinster sisters, sleep long and sound...