Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, the facts were that Mr. Norris had only made his alleged remarks as an affable means of turning the conversation. But a Southern miss, some 16 years in age, had overheard and promptly popped the alleged kiss upon the unsuspecting Senator...
...blind Member of Parliament rose to move the second reading of a bill to make blind people of 30 or over eligible for old-age pensions. Hardly had he sat down when there arose a War-maimed ex-warrior to move the second reading of a bill to make compulsory the employment by business firms of a fixed percentage of disabled ex-service men. The House gave second reading to both bills...
...Story. At the age of 18, Otis A. Skinner broached his plans for a stage career to his conservative clergyman father and his artistic mother. They laughed heartily. They could not foresee this awkward youth of bad diction and poor carriage as anything but ludicrous behind the footlights' all-revealing glare. Nevertheless, young Otis was sent to a friend of the family, who gave the youth a noncommittal letter, running as follows...
Every American college is "old" So-and-So; but age, like everything else, is relative. A centennial or semi-centennial commemoration fills us with piety and a sense--of antiquity. Some college old folks on the other side have a different standard of age. In 1922 the University of Padua kept the anniversary of its seven hundredth birthday. This month the University of Naples has been doing the same. St. Thomas Aquinas, a student there for six years, is its most illustrious graduate. On the six hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his death, which happened to be the two hundredth...
Aquinas, pupil of Plate and Aristotle, undisputed master for so many centuries of Catholic philosophy and theology, is glory enough for any university; one of the greatest glories of the Middle Age. In philosophy, law, history, medicine and anatomy the list of famous Neapolitans, is long. Remembering Parthenope, the clearest absent vision of her university is the quadrangle where stand the statues of those curious associates, two of whom came through martyrdom and exile to this peace--St. Thomas, Pietro della Vigna, Giordano Bruno. Pietro, Chancellor, of the Emperor Frederick II., and like him a poet, delivered his master...