Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of sprouting season on the younger male specimens of the species is age old and well known. It would seem, however, that to females, both old and young, the full enjoyment of Spring has been denied until re cent years. For when the young male turns to love to satisfy the cosmic urge, the female instinctively turns to meeting and conference. Whatever may be her mission or purpose in life, it is a rare Spring nowadays which fails to provide a conference or a convention on a suitable theme. Last week* provided...
...theatric saves the play from the Elinor Glyn class. But it is like spoiling a good bedroom farce with too much cheap philosophy. Phoebe Foster as the harried heroine hardly fosters interest. She is pretty, but wears dresses that add nothing to her charm and years to her age. One wonders that Lee Baker, who grates his teeth as well as he can in the sinister role, does not prefer Lilyan Tashman, who seems at least as real as her slang...
...Abolition of the ban on dancing, card playing, theatres, circus, but stressed the unmorality of the age...
...with the white ring of senility around the eye, a man who walks feebly, sits listlessly in his chair, having all the marks of senility at the age of 65, 70 or older, will after les greffes testiculaires walk upright and with vigor...
...particularly those concerned with procreation, while I was surgeon to the Khedive of Egypt. There were as many as 60 eunuchs about the palace. They had neither beard nor moustaches; their cheeks were pendent; obesity was very marked. They had that appearance of senility at a very early age. One of them who died at 45 looked like a man of 90. It demonstrated a fact now well known, that the male glands are not occupied entirely with procreation; they have one secretion for that purpose and another which puts force and energy into the muscles and the mind...