Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belmont expects great things of the proposed Amendment. When asked if she thought there would ever be a woman President, she replied: " I expect to live to see her elected and to attend her inauguration." Mrs. Belmont does not give her age in Who's Who. She was first married...
...Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master...
...parasites acting upon organs unable to withstand it on account of inherited or acquired weakness. Physiologically injurious living as to eating, drinking, chewing, smoking, may prepare a suitable soil that easily succumbs to the parasitic inciting cause. This may be a long-continued process, not confined to old age, but merely making itself apparent then. Heredity alone cannot cause cancer but may provide a weakness susceptible to irritation...
...authors are Gifford Pinchot, Jr., and ' Steve' Stahlnecker, son of my secretary. The pupils, most of whom are between seven and nine years of age, practice the yell while on their way to and from school...
...volume series of Souvenirs Entomologiques, together with the centenary of his birth (1823) brings to mind again the life labor of Jean Henri Fabre, " the insects' Homer," whom Darwin called "a savant who thinks like a philosopher and writes like a poet." Fabre died in 1915 at the age of 92, but posthumous works are still coming out, enhancing the fame and affection which the world began to accord him only toward the end of his hardship-ridden life. The Life of the Scorpion is typical both of his method as a naturalist and of the charm...