Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardship at his age of almost 75 years to sit in the sun at an inauguration, hardship to sit in the heated convention hall. The altitude made him short of breath; and the honors that were heaped upon him were arduous. He had to attend receptions, luncheons, banquets without end. One evening, having retired early, he was aroused from his bed at 10 p.m. by two generals sent by the President to invite him to a banquet; and he rose and went. On another evening, though not feeling well, he refused to cancel an engagement to attend the opera...
Arriving at the age of 65, too old to be an active admiral, Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa, onetime Admiral of the Fleet, has retired, as was announced by the Admiralty last week...
...present year, the 39th of Alfonso's reign and age, this tall, slight man with the ready smile?gay, brave to the point of recklessness, with features in no wise handsome, but none the less attractive?is in reality a monarch beloved by his people. Much more than his embittered enemies may he be called a democrat of Spain. Hard-worker, severely earnest in fulfilling his responsibilities, unusually tactful and liberal-minded, rapid and accurate in his decisions, he combines to a high degree of perfection those qualities of intellect for which he has earned recognition...
...such catalog. The nearest approach is Appleton's' Cyclopedia of American Biography, six volumes, now 35 years of age. But, last week, the Nation was told it would receive a present. Perceiving that it was most improbable that any publisher of books would ever underwrite so vast an undertaking, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of The New York Times declared his paper would advance $500,000 to the American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies, for the creation of 20 volumes containing the lives of some 20,000 illustrious Americans, including none of the living. The Times...
...fact seems to be that we are living in an age and a land vigorously dramatic. Some forty years ago Edmund Clarence Stedman, lamenting "the twilight of the poets," predicted that the next important movement would be in the theatre. It might not be easy to convince the free versiflors that their genius is fading in crepuscular gloom. But the playwrites have no doubt whatever that they are ascending the skies on the car of Aurora. Young and old, they are up and doing in the tank town and the university no less than in Broadway. If the eager groping...