Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...securing naval intelligence, had blundered tactically in the battle of Santiago, and had various minor faults. The Court however recommended no action be taken, and indeed the time had expired in which a court martial could be held. Shortly after the trial he was retired on reaching the age limit...
Speaking in a Methodist church in Manhattan, a doctor cried out against the imperfection of the age. He was Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, Medical Director of the Life Extension Institute. He said that, of 400,000 persons examined by the organization in twelve years, not one perfect physique had been found. "More than 60 per cent, of those examined," he said, "have been found in need of some important medical attention, and practically all have required some modification in their mode of living...
...Meeting Endorsed: 1) "The principle of the single tax." 2) Unemployment and old age insurance. 3) The right of labor to organize...
...California dentist; at Hartfod, Conn. Mr. Hopper's five former wives were named respectively Ella, Ida, Edna, Nella, Ella. Edna, still billed in vaudeville as "Edna Wallace Hopper" is now advertising, at 50? and $1.00 a box, "the beauty aids which keep me at my grand old age (51) looking like a girl." In 1881 Comedian Hopper appeared in a confection labeled: One Hundred Wives...
...that he had before he began inventing worlds, Mr. Wells writes of the husband and daughter of a London laundress and what they did when, their capable relative dying, they shook off the suds and embarked upon a career untrammeled by clotheslines. It is a contemporaneous chronicle, in the age of Ramsay MacDonald, broadcasting and world-flying. So that there are several "remarkable experiences", especially for Widower Preemby, despite the fact that some of the minor characters play Canfield every evening...