Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the organ pipes . ..." Ah! that I might have been there to see! Weird, mystic shapes, tremulous, vibrant, sonorous, which "strode" with intangible form down the dim cathedral aisles. Why, friends, I am 77 years old and I haven't had such a thrill (literary thrill) since, at the age of ten, I read about "an arm clothed in samite?mystic, wonderful!" Joking aside, please do not let carping critics persuade you to change or abandon your charming diction. Why not clothe commonplace details with beautiful language? Keep up the good work, and if there are any more organ tones...
...Widows, Orphans and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act. Hereafter, under certain restrictions, widows will receive a pension of 10 shillings ($2.40) a week, and orphans up to the age of 14 will receive 7 shillings ($1.68) a week. These pensions will all be payable on Tuesday, "the most convenient day for the postoffice to make payments...
Further the whole structure of British social insurance and old age pensions is covered by the law, but many clauses affecting this latter phase will not become effective for some years...
Ivan Mestrovic was born in 1883 in Slavonia. He received little better early schooling than was given other peasant boys of his age. For several years he tended sheep in Dalmatia for his Croatian parents. Later he moved to Spalato where he was apprenticed to a master mason. He then determined to become a sculptor and managed to scrape together sufficient funds for study in Vienna. In 1902 his first public exhibition was held. Since then his works have appeared several times in America and in all the great centers of Europe. Mestrovic is now Rector of the Academy...
Professor Alfred Jeanroy, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures in the University of Paris, will be the Exchange Professor from France to the University for the second half year it was announced last night. He will give a series of 12 lectures covering generally "Le Theatre Francais au Moyen Age." The titles of the separate lectures are as follows...