Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...59th encampment next year; the legislative committee was instructed to present a 'bill to Congress giving all Civil War veterans $72 a month, the disabled $100, and the totally disabled $155. But the main feature of the encampment for these men, now averaging 82 years of age, was the opportunity of marching together once more...
...Field Marshal Lord Allenby stands out as one of the most successful British Commanders of the War. He is 63 years of age a man of large proportions, "every inch a soldier...
...age of chivalry is passed, when women watched the ancestors of the noble Lords tilt in the lists. In this age we watch cowgirls at a tournament. So why should not women sit in this House? Would their presence detract from its dignity? If I were to say what I think...
Easy Street.-This particular wife started dying at an early age because, after she told her grandfather that she had sat on his silk hat, he spanked her. One thing led to another and by the second year of her married life she was telling her husband she had been home all day when she really had been to Manhattan and that hats cost eight dollars when they really cost twenty. The husband was stupid but he finally caught up with the parade of prevarications. Thereupon he produced a pistol and waved it around for the better part...
...middle age, Benito wrote a book: The Real John Huss. Huss was one of the first of the Reformation martyrs, and Benito praised him passionately. Benito was, at this point, a protestant but not a Protestant...