Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years old and just about eight months younger than Calvin Coolidge. It is generally reported that as a child he was precocious. As the campaign goes on, the accounts of this precocity will be amplified. At any rate he was graduated from Washington and Lee University at the age of 19. Three years later he took his LL.B. at the same place. From 1915 on, he annexed a whole string of LL.D.' here, in England, in Scotland...
About 41 years of age, Zinoviev is a man of arresting appearance, exuding "a picturesque madness that adds glamor to his character." His round head is surmounted by a shock of bushy black hair; his eyes, like those of all born revolutionaries, are coal black, luminous, revealing intensity and some times an appealing tenderness, but capable of flashing fire-"ashes and sparks my words among mankind." In stature he is of medium height, with a thick-set figure, beefy as a bull...
...finances of Rumania are in a terrible tangle and the country owes more money than it can pay off in a donkey's age. Moreover, there is not enough money in Rumania to buy 60% of the stock of foreign concerns in Rumania. Consequently, under such conditions, the Government is accused of trying to enrich Rumania at the expense of foreigners without paying a cent in return...
Nine years ago, when Pollyanna and its sequel Pollyanna Grows Up had newly burst upon the view, one reviewer, more prophetically than he knew, remarked : "Pollyanna retires from her second book at the age of 20 and she is 'glad, glad, glad for - everything,' for she and Jimmy love each other. . . . Two other incidental romances and some mysteries still remain unsolved ; so [he added apprehensively] it may be necessary for more 'glad' books to follow...
Alleging advanced age and illness as an excuse for no longer being able to face the problems which confront the Chinese Government, Premier Sun Pao-chi tendered his resignation and those of his Ministers to President Tsao...