Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grandjean took a pinch of snuff-and sneezed. She said her husband remarked: "It is ridiculous to use snuff at your age. Why not leave that for old people?" Retorted she: "So that's what you think?" And, picking up a revolver, she shot her ban man dead. "He made me so mad that I killed him unconsciously," she concluded to the police...
...watched the Tatars taming their wild horses, he saw the two eyes of a man-eating tiger peering at him through the jungle grass; an escaped murderer whom he befriended showed him a deadly battle among tarantulas; he visited a camp of Mongol Golds still in the stone age; he became the brother of a Kirghiz rider. A book of adventure for those who are cut off from adventure by the routine of their life. A book of truth for those who 'do not find fiction strange enough...
...During the Democratic Convention in San Francisco he had an automobile accident in which he was severely injured. Kingsland was 45 years of age and is survived by a wife and two children, who reside at 1102 Elden Avenue. He was a member of the Sun Alumnae Association and the American Legion...
Percy Marks, author of "The Plastic Age," the college novel which had a second printing in the first week of its life, and has had a third since, seems to have caused considerable talk in the colleges themselves, and he begs, through his publishers, The Century Co., to state once more, and most emphatically, that his imagined college of "Sanford" does not represent any one college. He also declares that every major incident recorded there he himself has seen, or heard of from most immediate and unquestionable witnesses...
...believe that the voting age in this country should be 18 instead of 21", said Mr. George. "The country does not hesitate to demand full responsibility in times of war, yet they do not care to give civic responsibilities in times of peace...