Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this is all admirable; it is the comment of an intelligent mind, and above all it displays a typically Gallic politeness toward those whose day of conquest is generally considered past; but when the savant undertakes to award prizes to those writers who mention heroines of notably advanced ages, he may fairly be suspected of harboring somewhere in the depths of his soul a sour-grapes complex, Balzac, for example, receives the Prix d'Excellence for six heroines adored anywhere between forty and forty-seven, and for one beloved at fifty-five. Any author who has a candidate over thirty...
...drunken prince twice her age...
...Fitch said that schoolboys and college boys were stupid. They swear, said he, and read immoral books and athleticize themselves and are remarkably bad. This speech received most of the press-comment. Said the press, in effect: "Once we listened to Dr. Fitch as the great Jeremiah of our age, but he begins to talk too loud. The louder he talks the less we listen...
...Newspapers published the picture* of Right Reverend William Temple, Bishop of Manchester, 43, son of the illustrious late Archbishop of Canterbury. Rumor picked him to succeed Archbishop Randall Davidson, 76, who, it was said, would resign on account of age. True, Bishop Temple has friends in the Labor Government; but Archbishop Davidson is unlikely to give a Labor Government the chance to appoint his successor. Furthermore, a slight acquaintance with Canterburian tradition would reveal that its Archbishops yield only to death...
...troubles of Princess Louise began at the age of 17 when she was married off to a drunken Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, twice her age. At 40 she accepted a brilliant Austrian cavalry officer (Count Mattachich) as her lover. After a duel and with the assistance of Emperor Francis Joseph, her lover married her. He finally died of drug. Meanwhile King Leopold disowned and endeavored to disinherit Princess Louise, with the result that she spent most of her later years at law. But Mattachich's name was on her lips at death...