Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Age, about fifty. Height, about six feet. Of commanding yet gracious presence. Occupation, a successful lawyer and farmer. Means, a competency, every cent of which was made in unexceptionable pursuits, from untainted clients. Health, perfect, signalized by the ability to box with Muldoon, ride with W. S. Hart and eat anything. Oratory, colorful yet dignified, a pleasing compromise between the stilted phraseology of Webster and the poetic nights of Prentiss. Ethnology, Scotch-English- Irish-German, the united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz. Public Record, after business and farming success, terms as Governor, United States...
MEET THE WIFE?Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here...
...William R. Hearst, Jr., unusually tall for his age, is several years younger than the average pressroom worker...
Twenty-five years of age is he, and rumor has it, a distant relative of the Heaven-born ruler of Japan. He took up golf but four years ago and in that period he defeated Donald Parsons of Youngstown in the Pinehurst mid-Winter tournament, thus capturing the title...
...James Augustine Farrell began his business career at the age of 16 in the employ of the New Haven Wire Mill. That was in 1863. Twenty-five years later he transferred his services to the Pittsburgh Wire Co., became superintendent of the factory. From then on he shot ahead with the rapidity and brilliance of a meteor. In 1911 he became President of the U. S. Steel Corporation- probably the greatest executive position in the indusrial world. His success is no doubt due to his thorough training as a workman. At the age of 61 he is still an ardent...