Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sure, Robert Todd Lincoln is 82, an age at which any man is entitled to retire from the unblinking gaze of the public eye, but, even more, he has encouraged that eye to rest its glance elsewhere. He has always done the best things quietly, beginning with the selection of his father, in 1843, continuing through his education at the University of Illinois, Phillips Exeter and Harvard. The last of these he left in 1864 to go on the staff of General Grant. He was present at the fall of Petersburg and at Appomattox Court House. The day after...
...House has not employed pages under 14 years of age since 1908, when Congress passed the District of Columbia Child Labor...
...Jonathan Trumbull who is thus honored was born in Lebanon, Conn., October 12, 1710, of stock that had been American since 1639. After an education undertaken at home and by the local pastor, he was prepared at the age of 13 for Harvard College, where he was ranked, according to the custom of the time, twenty-eight in the order of the prominence of his family among the 37 members of the class of 1727. It is interesting to observe that the young Trumbull gained social distinction so rapidly that in 1756 his son Joseph ranked second at Harvard...
...musician who had for his music master Rimski-Korsakov, can still play fantastically upon every mood. Like the Spanish dramatist, Benavente, he had followed the circus in his youth and still knows how to give his audience circuses as well as bread. The slendor boy who at the age of thirteen had performed as an equillbrist in the little Russian village circus had grown up into the man of forty-six who still holds our attention fixed as he delicately keeps his balance between the real and the make-believe. Up to the last he keeps us in suspense, guessing...
...chewers' sheets published friezes of photographs which told the story of this man's extraordinary career so lucidly that even the most illiterate readers could not fail to comprehend. They showed Mr. Jones as a bright-cheeked office boy, starting his business career at the age of 15. During this period he received $5 a week. They showed him at the shaving age when he was working his way through business school by selling typewriters. Other photographs pursued him from his first connection with the Standard Oil Co. as a stenographer in Oil City, Pa., through the occasion when...