Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaking on a familiar theme. For the eighth or ninth time he delivered his famous philippic against Soviet Russia at the National Civic Federation Convention. He has given it at every Labor Convention since the one at Atlantic City in 1919 and, like wine, it improves with age...
King Fuad, Ahmed Fuad Pasha, G. C. B., is the eighth ruler of the dynasty founded by Muhammad Ali in 1811, and is the son of Khedive Ismail Pasha, whom the French and British forced to abdicate in 1879. He is 55 years of age, became Sultan of Egypt on October 9, 1917, and married Princess Nazli on May 24, 1919. He is a man of large stature; handsome after the manner of Egyptians; inordinately proud of a mature Kaiser moustache; of considerable intelligence, but with pronounced leanings to despotism, believing that his subjects should heed the Spanish proverb: "With...
Admiral Benson had a record of 47 years of active service when he was retired in accordance with naval regulations in 1919. Graduated in 1877 from the United States Naval Academy at the age of 22, he became an ensign in 1881. His promotion was steady, and at the outbreak of war with Germany he was chief of naval operations with the rank of rear-admiral. He made two trips to Europe during the war as a member of special commissions and in 1919 was the naval representative in drawing up the naval terms of the armistice with Germany...
...That the fundamental postulates of Einstein that ether does not exist and that gravity is not a force, but a property of space, are crazy vagaries, disgraceful in a scientific age, and repudiated by the Paris Academy of Sciences and by reputable German scholars...
...Straw Hat Manufacturers of America-a rough Sennit straw for daytime wear, a leghorn for motoring and golfing, and a smooth straw for evening wear." Lady Astor: "I introduced a bill into the House of Commons to prohibit the sale of intoxicants to persons under 18 years of age. Opposition led me to remark that one of my opponents ' seemed to be the village donkey.' I was called to order and withdrew my epithet." Andrew J. Volstead: "Having been defeated for re-election to Congress, I called at the White House to pay my respects before retiring...