Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engineering training? If asked this question, we would without doubt answer that this is the age of specialization that the man who is not proficient in some particular line of endeavor cannot be expected to reach any great heights...
...emphasize this appeal, posters in streetcars, on the pillars of subway stations, the billboards of vacant lots, present the picture of a woman in a shawl. Her chin is pressed to the pivot of her wrist; her eyes are smeared with black. She might be any age, this sad, sharpened Jewess; the thing that has pointed her bones and thinned her flesh is not age but weariness; she is the incarnation of the most desolate of physical woes, fatigue. "Are You Tired of Giving?" asks the caption. "You Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired...
...famed Whistler hangs in the Louvre or not? In nearly every 100% American home a reproduction of it already hangs. The lady of the house turns to the admiring guest saying: "That lovely one on the left is Old Ironsides, and that sweet one at the right is The Age of Innocence, and this one in the centre is, of course, Whistler's Mother, the one he called Arrangement in Grey and Black...
...grounds become drenched in sunshine and bird song, studying in books and teaching out of them become burdensome. At young ladies' seminaries and colleges, undergraduates then have dreams and ideas more mature than the oldest wight on earth, and their greying mistresses are stirred by impulses of an age with the buds outside the window. Wherefore an old pagan custom is then revived, its original nature made innocent by thousands of springs. The Maypole is erected. Virgins dance in white fluttering things. A Queen of the May or of Beauty is crowned with a garland. Or a play...
...live in the retired comfort which he loved. He was known as one of the greatest European authorities on the U. S. Constitution. He is "succeeded" by his 12-year-old son, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom Napoleon Clémentine will act as "regent" until he becomes of age...