Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...again elected to Congress, as a Democrat from Toledo. For 14 years continuously he sat in the House of Representatives. But in the Harding landslide of 1920 he was defeated. In 1921 at the ripe age of 86 he left the halls of Congress. But he was not done. Eighteen months later, campaigning with pristine vigor of mind, he won his way back, reelected. He sat for two years more, and a year ago decided that he had had enough. Last February he made his farewell address to the House...
...denounced the Anti-Saloon League and the Volstead Act. At the age of twelve he had signed a pledge never to vote for a law permitting the sale of intoxicating beverages, but the methods of the Anti-Saloon League, he said, are unChristian, "vindictive, vengeful and mercenary," and "by its drastic methods of trying to enforce the Volstead law it has hatched the biggest crop of law-breakers ever inflicted upon a community...
...stream, however, comes "The Senate and the League of Nations," written by the late Henry Cabot Lodge. Instead of discussing the Senate and the League of Nations from various angles and then building up proof to support the conclusions of the author, as one might expect in this enlightened age, the book devotes very little space to specific issues, and abounds in vituperative generalities directed against the late President Wilson. That Mr. Wilson's cosmos was all ego, that "the key to all he did was that he thought of everything in terms of Wilson," is Mr. Lodge's principal...
NameClass Age Weight Height Position Prep. School McAvoy, J. C., '28 19 175 5.10 Back Wyoming Sem. Marshall, H. T., '26 21 160 5.11 Quarterback Mechanic Arts H.S. Hardy, C. L., '27 21 193 6.2 Tackle Exeter Robinson, W. F., '26 22 175 6.1 1/2 Back Deerfield Acad. Holleran, J. H., '27 21 188 6.1/4 Tackle Boston Latin Fryberger, W. B., '27 21 170 5.9 1/2 End Duluth Central Smith, A., '26 20 190 6. Guard West High, Minn. Fusonie, A. T., '28 20 180 5.11 End Boston Latin Allen, G. H., '26 21 190 6.1 1/2 Tackle Lynn...
NameClass Age Weight Height Position Prep. School Adie, J. W., '26 21 176 6. Center St. Marks Baldwin, C. D., '26 20 167 6. End Morristown Barbee, J. N., '28 19 174 6.2 Back Carl Schurz High Bradford, C. H., '26 21 184 6.1 Guard Browne & Nichols Bradford, E. H., '26 21 176 6. End Browne & Nichols Chase, W. R., '26 21 178 5.8 End Brookline High Chauncey, H., '28 20 170 6.1 Back Groton Cheek, M. A., '26 22 170 5.11 Back Exeter Clark, E. C., '27 22 171 5.8 Back Milten Coady...