Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abilities to create, to analyze, and to solve. Indeed, I have seen third-year men criticize and analyze works of painting, sculpture, literature, music, and drama with more astuteness and reason than are often expected from specialists in those fields of the same length of training and age...
Discussing "The Scope and Purpose of Legal Research," Dean Pound said: "In an age of expanding trade the operations of business could not be confined by the straight jacket of legal conceptions and legal institutions worked out for the simpler commercial conditions of Feudal England. Then it took an act of Parliament to bring courts to recognize an established instrument of commerce. Today a simple legislative act will seldom suffice. Also today the economic structure is so complex and so delicate that we cannot wait for things to work themselves out at a great cost in friction and waste...
...upon the stage where Patti sang, where Modjeska triumphed, where Edwin Booth, Salvini, Lawrence Barrett, John McCullough, Campanini, Ole Bull, sang or spoke or played, white-haired Otis Skinner, actor, made a little speech. He spoke well, with that fine courtliness, which distinguishes actors and field marshals in old age. But the people in the stalls and boxes did not need to hear him; they too could have said everything he was saying, could have told about the cocktails at the Union Square Hotel, two for a quarter, about the terrapin and canvasback at the New York Hotel, about Tony...
...chanced to be John Marshall Harlan, grandson and namesake of the late U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan, who sat on the U. S. Supreme Court from 1877 to 1911. There was a piquant index to the course of U. S. legal history in the fact that, at the age (later twenties) at which his grandfather was sitting on a Kentucky county bench and running for Congress, the grandson was making a début? from the modern point of view a most auspicious début?by probing for his Government into the nocturnal diversions of innocuous flesh-potters...
...built a cathedral and by sheer force of statistics won first a mitre, then the Hat. A pistol bullet fired near him by ecstatic Mile, de Morfontaine puts him in mind of how the faith of his young days has vanished into labyrinthine dialectic. He dies of old age at sea, a benignant saint returning to his yellow disciples...