Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intelligentsia. On every hand the world of letters was pleasantly stirred to hear that Mr. John St. Loe Strachey,* famed and distinguished essayist, veteran editor of the Spectator, had finally published his first novel, at the age of 65. It was recalled that his daughter, Mrs. Amabell Williams Eltis, also published her first novel, Noah's Ark, a few months...
...filled with a new hope, the enterprising Commissar declared: "If the success of these operations continues, the world revolution will take on a new lease of life. . . .Communism must do everything possible to preserve for the cause experienced fighters who may be on the point of dying of old age...
...long been prominent in the country as a leader of the Fundamentalist group in religious controversy. He is the author, among other works, of "The Virgin Birth--Fact or Fiction," "The Dance of Death--Should Christians Indulge?", "Our Relapse Into Paganism", and "The Fall of the Hall of The Age of Man" The last of these is described as "standing revelations concerning the musty old bones that have been juggled and manipulated to prove that man descended from the brutes...
...took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment she is not a striking figure but rather detached, casual to the outward expressions of existence, calmly occupied with the deliberate achievement of perfection. She says she had accumulated sufficient material for a lifetime of writing by the age of 20, but that would not include years spent in the Southwest on archaeological expeditions, fruit of which is the aesthetic piece de resistance of this book...
...monomania. He would have his model throw herself down over and over in different attitudes, any attitudes, and would draw her with fierce, scrawling strokes. How his Man with the Broken Nose was refused by the Salon jury is history; in 1877 he was accused of faking his Age of Bronze-now in the Luxembourg -by taking a mold from the living model. Good people have denounced his works wholesale as "erotic." Academicians have stated that he^ combines a coarse literary mind with an inadequate technique, which is doubtless partly true-true also that he was never proficient...