Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smallpox to boot; as are also my cheeks, which are pendulous with large jaws and jagged teeth. My mouth is changed, too, having become larger and wrinkled at the corners. Behold what a beautiful object I am..." To be sure this was written when she was 46 years of age, but no one has even said that she was anything but ugly, even in her youth...
Nineteenth Century atmosphere−complete with cigar-chewing "house manager," candle footlights, handbill including an original notice by Dickens−is built up to give the audience a sense of superiority that enables it to laugh not only at the play but at the whole age which took such plays seriously...
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK−The "Awkward Age" engagingly revived by the Provincetown Players, with all indigenous sentiments, asides, characters−and chairs painted on the rolled-up curtain...
...Venetian palace, surrounded by rare, beautiful and very precious treasures of Art−a collection estimated second only to that of John Pierpont Morgan−Mrs. Jack Gardner of Boston died at the age of 85. Fenway Court is one of the most glorious monuments to American wealth. Its marble Renaissance doorway opens to the public a few days each year. Virtually all of the stones in the structure were brought from Venice. Around the central court are balconies brought from the Ca' d'Oro, the most beautiful Gothic palace on the Grand Canal. The pavement...
Helen Porter Mitchell (Melba) born in 1859, made her first public appearance at six years of age at a school-concert, when she sang Comin' Thro' the Rye to a delighted audience. She received a good musical education, mostly at the piano, married one Captain Charles Armstrong when 23 and sang and played at private musical soirees in Melbourne. But, because of some prejudice against her early marriage to a well-to-do man, the Australian public ranked her "an amateur." So she departed for Paris in 1884, trained her voice−and studied hard−under...