Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anatole France, 79 years of age and possibly the greatest living French author, gave an interview to the Good Will delegation of American women which has been touring the French battlefields. He said...
ROMEO AND JULIET?Last week of the longest Shakesperian run in American dramatic history, wherein Jane Cowl proves to everyone's satisfaction that you don't have to be over draft-age to present an enthralling Juliet...
...admitted that it would be difficult for a fake to pass the experts of the Louvre or the Metropolitan, but experts differ among themselves as to what is genuine, what is spurious. The inquiry is raised: "If experts cannot tell the difference, what are we paying for, age or beauty...
...Ernest Pertwee and published by Routledge, of London, and an American product, My Recitations, selected by Cora Urquhart Potter, published by Lippincott. Dipping into them revives odd memories ? lambrequins and dadoes ? gilded rolling-pins, dudes, croquet, the high-wheel bicycle, the game of Boston ? a departed age...
...Edinburgh. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. As a boy, he lived in America and attended a private school on Washington Square. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, he wrote two novels. One of them, The Wooden Horse, was his first published story. Before this, however, at the age of twelve, he is said to have written a novel concerning Guy Fawkes for the delectation of the family cook. For a time he worked as a journalist on The London Standard. He is popular in London; but it is only at certain times that he allows himself the luxury...