Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despite all that has happened between Lord Allenby and the Premier, they are good friends, and entertain at each other's homes, and appear together frequently in public. Lord Allenby is 64 years old and a splendid man in every way. Both sides have been softened by experience and age...
...mote-and-beam doctrine had its reiteration in a letter addressed by Tokutomi Kenjiro, famed Japanese littérateur, to U. S. missionaries, on the conclusion of the fourth decade of his Christian life. The Living Age republished from the Japan Weekly Chronicle...
...conductor has received orchestral training under G. M. Chadwick and Walter Goodrich. The list of conductors under whom he has played includes Karl Muck, Ernst Schmidt, Pierre Monteux, Emil Mollenhauer, Henry Hadley, and Giorgio Palacco. He began conducting at an early age, and he is now the assistant conductor of the Melrose Orchestra Association. During the past season, he has also been conductor of the orchestra of the South End Music School in Boston. In the Pierian Sodality Orchestra, he has played as first cellist for the past three seasons...
...young and engagingly pessimistic view of life has done much to stimulate modern American thought. Its education is of a more immediate turn. There is less of that deliberately pure scholarship which is found in the East, of that ripe appreciation of higher values which comes with maturity and age...
Selden, who said he was near enough to the man to catch hold of him, described him as about five feet four inches tall, around 25 years of age, of light build and light complexion...