Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Carol is 31 years of age and four years ago was married to Princess Helen of Greece. They have one son, Michel, aged 3. In 1918, rumors of his marriage with a Rumanian commoner (denied at Bucharest) attracted considerable attention. His father confined him for 75 days for a breach of military discipline which was popularly supposed to have been his marriage. Subsequently, so rumor went, he was forced to divorce his bride, having previously attempted to renounce the throne and commit suicide...
Kate Clephane waited, was sought out at last by her daughter. Mother-in-law Clephane had followed her son to a respectable grave and there was no other family music to face. Kate found New York quite graduated from its age of innocence, found her lovely daughter Anne all that was satisfying to a mother-love grown ravenous through lean years...
...age when activity is of more concern than purpose, it is gratifying, not to say astounding, to discover a publication which serves as many purposes as those delegated to the Official Program of the Harvard-Yale Regatta. That publication was designed by its publishers, the Harvard Athletic Association, to amuse the impatient crowds in case of a postponement of the starting time, to educate them in "What the Young Girl May Wear", to give them a background of crew history, and to give them, in the most approved off-hand fashion, some idea of who will race on Friday...
News editors are very weary of being wary. Theirs is an eternal vigilance. To them, everyday is April 1. Only those born in Missouri survive to a ripe old age. Suspicion must become their second nature. The public expects them to be omniscient, omni-accurate. Yet the public conceals facts from them, distorts facts to them, lies to them outright, plays jokes upon them. The good citizen with a "cause" brings propaganda to their desks. Public men lie to the press as an aid to their digestion. Reporters, the emissaries hired by editors to keep them accurately informed, put upon...
...never wearies of the old theme of lovers masquerading under the habiliments of the opposite sex. Even Achilles, before he was old enough to assumes a title role in the Trojan War, spent an undetected, if precarious youth among the princesses in the royal megaron. The chronicles of every age, indeed, narrate the successes of those who have effected such impersonations...