Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Beatty, known during the War as Admiral Sir David Beatty, apart from being a popular idol, is acknowledged a sailor of proved efficiency and immense capabilities. He is 53 years of age and married in 1901 Miss Ethel Field, daughter of Marshall Field of Chicago...
...follows an outline of the life history of a man who, once a country yokel, has risen to be Prime Minister of Britain. Born in the village of Lossiemouth in 1866; under the influence of village school teacher renounced manual labor and became a student; at 19 years of age went to London, worked in daytime, studied in evenings, health gave way; after long illness became secretary to Thomas Lough, Liberal; in 1894 became a Laborite; stood for election in 1895 and 1900 but was defeated both times; in 1906 he won a seat in Leicester which he represented until...
...student in a drama department of a woman's club gets very far without encountering the name of Percy MacKaye. He was America's most brilliant poet-playwright at a very young age. He is still that. America has no others; but Mr. MacKaye has never written a play which can touch his earliest efforts. The Canterbury Pilgrims and The Scarecrow remain his finest achievements. Too early he was entrammelled by the lure of pageantry. Too early he listened to the flattery of academicians and literary ladies. The son of a practical playwright of fame and success...
That a man is no older than he feels has perhaps never been better exemplified than by President Eliot. Instead of retiring at sixty into a sommolent old age, he has to this very day kept as intellectually active as any youth--and he has kept so by the catholicity and vigor of his interests. In this he has made himself a great name--our foremost example of the American Citizen. And President Eliot is to receive such signal recognition on March 20. He deserves all praises and honor not only from Harvard men but from the whole country...
Charles W. Eliot was President of the University for forty years--from 1869 to 1909; he was born in Boston in 1884, and graduated from Harvard in 1853. His election as President at the age of 35 was considered remarkable, both because of his youth and because he was a layman and scientist...