Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gilbert's Pirate King denounces the month of February with verses which approximate in length the final verse. Few survivors of the Victorian age will take kindly to this verse and to the couplet of which it is a part, or will regard a line of twenty-one words and thirty syllables (yoked by rhyme to a line of three words and six syllables) as a satisfactory successor of the traditional Alexandrine or septenary. Yet modern poets must make their own experiments, however daring; and Mr. Auslander's experiments in metre are relatively temperate. In days in which whole paragraphs...
Washington, D. C., May 21.--Comparing Dr. Charles W. Eliot'68, president of Harvard University, emeritus, to King Solomon, Representative Emmanuel Celler, one of the "wet" leaders in the House of Representatives, criticised the aged educator for his views on prohibition in a letter made public here today. Mr. Celler's communication was a reply to a long letter written by President Eliot on May '15, explaining why, at the age of 88, he became an exponent of national prohibition...
...Columbia University, Representative Celler wrote President Eliot, contrasting the latter's position in 1897, when he was opposed to prohibition, and his present support of Dr. Butler's pronouncement. In reply to this letter, President Eliot said that he became a total abstainer from liquor at the age of 83. At this time, he said, he came to the conclusion that nationwide prohibition was necessary, basing his conclusions on the results of the medical examination of results for the national army...
...years of age you endorse prohibition and have became a total abstainer. Is not the comparison between your good self and King Solomon irresistable? Aside from the Wisdom of both of you, many a time in his vigorous youth Solomon slaked his thirst with the flowing bowl, but in his old age claimed 'wine is a mocker...
...esteem you highly, Dr. Eliot, but somehow I prefer your disapproval of prohibition as expressed at the age of 63 rather than your approval of it expressed at the age...