Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...master, John Singer Sargent. She found him dead on his pillow with a volume spread open, face down, on the reading table beside him. Physicians who arrived to pronounce the inevitable, grisly abracadabra, said that he had died in his sleep of an apoplectic seizure. So, at the age of 69, ended the life of an eminent and talented gentleman who has been recognized for the last 30 years as the greatest portrait painter of his period...
Excluding people below the age of 40, one may divide the population of the world into two classes of people: 1) Those who worry about whether they can get something to eat; 2) those who, having enough to eat, worry about what is the right thing...
...nation. Obviously it desires to make the future safe for its inheritors. And yet, in this land of few grievances, and little oppression, past injuries are not forgotten, and the voice of the self-named patriot still carries forward the hatred and jealousies of a warring age...
...cries out today against sex books reveals himself as a strangler in the march of progress, who is manifetly far behind the best, enlightened thought and knowledge of the age. Sex is no longer a dark forbidden subject? hidden, yet finding its way surreptiously and smuttily into every talk and revenging itself by tragedies of ignorance...
...great, however. Soon he was off to Canada, where he established a most profitable counterfeiting establishment beyond reach of the U. S. law. That he wound up in the Catholic Church argues, perhaps, a retarded outcropping of his Puritanical upbringing ; perhaps one last hypocrisy to ensure comfort in old age. The rhetorical, mock-modest manner of his memoirs, which he published to a wide audience in 1811, indicate the complete hypocrite -a varlet of guile and gusto to whom a naive generation quite naturally credited unnatural sins and the comradeship of Satan. Poet Frost, in a preface to the reissued...