Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Communists' fiery talk of mutiny and revolution belongs to an age which has passed. Their most furious utterances arouse, among people who know, more amusement than concern for what they...
From the palace to church, to the City Cathedral went King Gustav V, incredibly tall, hiding a princely reticence behind a beard, under a high-hat, beneath a long-coat, a stand-up collar, a glittering pincenez. With him rode his Queen, golden-haired in buxom middle age...
Throughout the tests the fanfare of the press was uninterrupted, blatant: "An unmarried couple of the romantic age can remain in each other's presence for 60 hours without sleep and not become irascible . . . Doctors did not say whether a married couple can do the same." Numerous communications from scientists, doctors and cranks were received by those conducting the test...
...that irreverent but optimistic curmudgeon famed in race-track ballad has now attained the age of 100, he was a stripling of 25 when the first issue of Harper's Magazine was published. If it is a fact, as some aver, that his quaint prophesy concerned, not the speed of a horse, but the future of that publication, he has been amply justified...
...Grace record, which Hobbs has now equalled, was never expected to be surpassed-but it will be. Dr. Grace played cricket for 41 years, from the age of 17 until he was 58. Hobbs will, if the fates are disposed, play first-class cricket for many long years to come. To boot, he has this season yet to finish. It seems therefore certain that he will soon become the greatest batsman in the annals of cricket...