Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American citizen, believe in justice and I say with deepest sincerity that I consider it not only very unjust but inconceivable in this day and age of enlightenment to compare Mrs. Eddy, a true American, and her works, which stand for the very ideals upon which America was founded, with Buddha, Mahomet, Confucius...
Egyptologists have never before found a single piece of furniture from so remote an age as that of Sneferu. Experts believe that most of the collapsed wood can be successfully reconstructed by means of the inlay and metal ornamentation. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts now has on exhibition a jewel casket and toilet box of a somewhat later Egyptian princess which was built entirely from the ivory inlay and gold frames...
...give publicity to the following estimate of Prince Bismarck recently penned by a gentleman whom I believe you have styled "famed Washington correspondent, Clinton W. Gilbert." His opinion is probably at least as good as yours. Here it is: "Prince Otto von Bismarck at 28 years of age is the leader of the Nationalist Party in the German Parliament, or Reichstag, one of the leading parties in point of numbers in Germany. . . . What strikes an American is the singular maturity of the young leader of the Nationalists. At 28 he would be two years short of eligibility for the United...
...More than 8,000,000 women are engaged in gainful occupations in this country, and of these two-fifths are under 25 years of age. That means that not far from one-half of the women workers today are young, with their lives not only as workers but as mothers wholly before them to be made or marred by the conditions under which they live and work. Nearly two millions of women wage earners are already married, not including those who are widowed, and divorced or separated...
Pointing to the Abbé, defendant Maurice Lourdin cried: "There sits the Devil, Satan himself! . . . He is the greatest sorcerer of the age. He can make people die, with or without pain, as he desires. . . . He sent upon us awful maladies. I suffer from them. . . . Our Sainted Mother suffers...