Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the war broke out?the Civil War?Walter Newman Haldeman was publishing the Louisville Journal and had a son, William Birch, but 14 years of age. The Journal was suppressed because of its Southern sympathies and some two years later the son ran away from Forest's Academy to enlist in the 9th Kentucky Infantry, the famous Orphan Brigade (Confederate). He fought at Chickamauga and was wounded. Then he shipped as a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. But gunboat service was not exciting enough for him. He went back to his old company and finished the war with...
...addition has been made to the old cemetery, to accommodate the ashes of the lately dead. The new names of the departed include such as Euripides Alexopoulos, Didymus Hupp, Saul Kostecki, Teresa Pashkowsky, Diamandi Viktoria, Yet Sing Low. Their problems have changed, too. They have become those of an age of faster transportation, closer communication of the city and the towns which draw their strength from the city. There remains the old keen irony, the uncompromising economy of expression, the free but careful technique. The book has not the importance of the first Spoon River-but only because its method...
...after three months' illness. She was married twice and resumed the name of Burnett acquired from her first husband (divorced) after the death of her second husband, Stephen Townsend. Her first literary success came when Godcy's Lady's Book published a story which she wrote at the age...
...Age Weight Height Baldwin '27, tackle 20 182 5.11 Bartell '27, center 21 165 5.09 Beattie '25, tackle 21 201 6.03 Caldwell '25, back 23 176 5.10 Crago '26, guard 21 198 6.00 Davis '27, guard 19 186 6.01 Dignan '26, back 21 170 6.00 Dinsmore '25, back 22 150 5.08 Drews '25, end 21 170 6.01 Ewing '27, back 19 150 5.09 Forrest '26, center 21 180 5.11 Gates '26, tackle 20 180 6.00 Gibson '26, back 21 185 6.00 Gilligan '25, back 21 171 5.10 Goldstein '26, back 21 141 5.04 Hills '25, guard 22 204 6.03 Howard...
...nineteenth century saw. Babbitt succeed Napoleon as conqueror of the world. Yet the same century saw the most extravagant, play of individualism of any age in history. Chateaubriand, Hugo, DeMusset, Devigny in France--Burns, Byron, Shelley, Keats in England...developed their genius in the face of, and often in protest against the deadening influence of commercialism, industrialism, and materialism...