Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...age of 73, Shaw has nothing new to say. The forces which he has created have moved beyond him. He is no longer a prophet but a rather pathetic figure, unconscious of the changes which he has wrought...
...Renouhard runabout, saying, "I'll pay for the gasoline but youll pay for the chauffeur's meals." Through their subsequent seven-year amour, Léa remained in Chéri's eyes no more than a means to his own pleasure, unmixed with tenderness. Result: noticing Léa's age in her face after a short separation, he left her as he would a cage, returning to his young wife...
...Wilson's "episodic cyclorama" attempts to paint in 34 scenes the tumultuous love-life of Veronica Mathilda McConnell, a poor Irish serving girl. At the age of eleven in the streets of the slums. she gathered stray lumps of coal to keep her drunken father warm. "Youse wuzz good to me," she breathed to the portrait of her mother (recently deceased). She appeared in rags, in bathing suits, in bed; as the innocent, the maiden betrayed, finally as the tempered lady who babbled of green fields as she died in New Rochelle at the tender age...
...Edward R. Squibb, U. S. Navy surgeon, left the service and set up in a small way as a manufacturing chemist. It was just the right time. The Civil War, a big boom for medicaments, was only two years ahead. So the business went along prosperously, and at the age of 47 (in 1905) was incorporated as E. R. Squibb & Sons. Since then there has been another big boom for medicaments, the World War, which won the company not only profit but an award from the U. S. for distinguished service. That things have not been going backward since...
...this new experiment. He sold his business some 25 years ago to the late Lowell M. Palmer, potent lime and cement man, who installed his son-in-law, Theodore Weicker, to run it. Later, Mr. Palmer's able son, Carleton H. Palmer, was installed at an early age and became, after the war and his father's death, president of the company. It was under his youthful stimulus that the business began advertising, expanding. Still young (38 years), clean-shaven (Squibb's shaving cream), smiling through white teeth (Squibb's tooth paste), healthy (Squibb specifics...