Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respect of age. Mr. Burton, 73, is surpassed by Speaker Gillett, two months Ins senior, by Representative Fuller (Ill.) 74, Representative Dickinson (Mo.) 75, Representative Greene (Mass.) 83, Representative Graham (Pa.) 74, Representative Stedman (N. C.) 83, Representative Sherwood (Ohio...
Francine Larrimore, the star, saves the character from being a hybrid bud. She seems to range in age from eight to eighteen, according to the impulse of the moment. By turn she is petulant, frowsy, winning, pusillanimous, firm. But she fuses this all together with her indomitable histrionic spirit, and saves the part from being a teapot tempest of tears. Tom Nesbitt and Wallace Ford provide good shadows for the background, but the aunts are mere stalking horses...
...Church of England announced that during the past six years an average of 287 men have taken holy orders, whereas there has been average loss from the ranks of the clergy of 700. There are scarcely 1,000 Anglican priests under 35 years of age. Leaders are dismayed...
...None of the Public's Business!" George F. Baker, having returned from the South, the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew called a meeting to elect a President for the New York Central Railroad.* The new President is Patrick E. Crowley, age 60, who has been railroading for more than forty years...
...George F. Baker?" is a question to which no good answer has ever been given. True, he is in the banking business at No. 2 Wall Street. True, he is twice as rich as the original J. P. Morgan, having a fortune estimated at 200 millions. True, at the age of 84 when he has retired from many directorates, he dominates half a dozen railroads, several banks, scores of industrial concerns. "At a word from him, the 20th Century would halt on its tracks...