Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...married. Her husband, just twice her age, was Dr. Canning Woodhull, by name. He came of an eminent family. He was a gay rake. He was cruel. To them was born a child. It was subnormal...
Perhaps it was as well that Mrs. Woodhull was not elected; for there would have been grave complications: she was only 34 years old on March 4, 1873, and the Constitution requires that a President must be 35 years of age...
...financier and reformer." She has written a number of works, including The Origins, Tendencies and Principles of Government and Garden of Eden Stirpiculture. Her recreations are scientific agriculture, psychical research, motoring (she is a member of the Ladies' Automobile Club), collecting works of art. Now she enjoys old age in Worcestershire, at her beautiful home, Norton Park, Bredon's Norton, near Tewkesbury...
...Author. A. A. Milne was born, though few believe it, in 1882. Before the War, he was Assistant Editor of Punch; after the War he wrote plays, six of which- The Dover Road, Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blayds, The Lucky One, The Great Broxopp, The Romantic Age- have been produced in Manhattan...
...cruel joke that the State, which decrees compulsory education within a certain age limit, should also decree that the student, forbidden to work, is barred out of school more than a quarter of his share of fleeting time...