Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lose. Not strictly speaking an organ of sex, as ignorants suppose, the prostate, nestling just beneath the bladder, supplies certain useful but not vital secretions, is observed to be peculiarly liable to deterioration in old men, to communicable infection in young. Last week, yielding only to the onslaught of age, M. Poincarè stepped briskly from his apartment, motored to a clinic, and next morning with firm step walked to the operating table on which he laid him down...
...read a memorandum boldly scrawled by Benito Mussolini last week, shortly before he achieved age 46. Next morning, spruce and whistling, he stepped from his Roman residence, slipped behind the wheel of a low-slung Alpha Romeo roadster. Venturesome, a correspondent asked why there would be no public birthday observance, received for his pains a blasting, withering glance...
Continuing, he said things calculated to amaze both the pious and the artistic. "We do not want something Gothic," he declared. "The time has gone by when the Church should be content with a weak imitation of medieval architecture. Our own age is worthy of interpretation right now and there could be no finer place than a great seaport like Liverpool. . . . On the other hand, we want nothing 'Epsteinish...
Youth and Age played together in France to try to get the Davis Cup back to the U. S. Youth was too young, Age too old. The cup stayed where it was. Experts agreed it would have stayed there even if there had been more Age and less Youth. As it was, Youth got some valuable experience...
...Age, in the person of William Tatem Tilden, II., playing in what was advertised as his last international match, made a small bet with Player Henri Cochet of France and rushed into the first singles match with a brave effort at speed and power. Player Cochet won the bet in precisely 50 minutes...