Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midst of physical agony, financial reverses, artistic disappointment. It is true that he was of a buoyant nature?a genial bubble riding stormy seas. But he was subject to fits of overwhelming depression. "Oh Medea, kill me or make me young again!" he cries at the age...
...Dominions speak of us as the motherland and of our Parliament as the mother of Parliaments. I think that the insistence on the word 'mother,' which is affectionate in intention, makes that a tribute to something of old age, if not senility, in regard to our institutions...
America on Road to Golden Age...
...masses. It is true that the war had a bad effect on a majority of our people but it is equally true that it had a truly refining influence on a minority of Americans and it is this minority which is going to lead us to a new Golden Age...
...psychologist of today exhibits the phenomenon of "color hearing" as one of the marvels of the age. In listening to a symphony the people who possess this strange faculty are said to see all the colors of the spectrum succeeding each other in harmonious arrangement. Some tones, they say, are red, others voluptuous purple. Even the ordinary man is now familiar with languid blues in music...