Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beerbohm is nearly 51 years of age. Educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, he has since dabbled with the fine arts and literature. A great lover of Italy, he spends much of his time at his villa (Villino Chiaro) at Rapallo...
...come back " of Jess Willard, the shutting out of the Giants by decrepit, old Babe Adams, and a few other prodigies of belligerent age have featured sufficiently in newspaper philosophizings to make it stale and unprofitable to dwell upon any subject in which a man mocks at his years and refuses to succumb to them. However, here is an instance of hale antiquity found in a world quite different from that of sports. A small musical item from Connecticut relates that one of the tenors with an opera troupe playing in Stamford is Giuseppe Agostini. Now, Agostini...
Pilgrimages. July, not the Chaucerian April, is the month of pilgrim- age for American Roman Catholics. Several hundred New Englanders are arranging to go to Lourdes and Rome under the auspices of the Holy Name Society. The Pope will give them audience...
...age of 16 is usually associated with girls in an international indoor pastime rather than in outdoor sports. Miss Aileen Riggin has altered the conception by winning the all-around senior aquatic championship of the country for women. In the past season she won the fancy diving championship (from a four-foot board), swam on the winning 400-yard relay team, and was runner up in fancy diving from a ten-foot board, and the free style swim at 100, 220 and 500 yards, the back stroke at 150 yards, and was third in the 50-yard free style...
...short biography culled from the same advertisement: "For nearly forty years Mr. Macfadden [age 55 years] has been hammering away at ideals that are a fixed part of his nature. He believes that everybody should be strong...