Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning to the Cahill Report on French Prosperity, observers noted first its unequivocally optimistic tone: "France is at present incalculably stronger industrially than in 1913. . . . Hers is an enhanced, all-pervading and solidly based economic advance . . . signal prosperity ... an age of industrial expansion unprecedented in French history and of a magnitude unsurpassed by any other European country...
...immemorial right of the Habsburg Dynasty the eldest living male descendant of our late King Karl became King of Hungary when he [Archduke Otto] achieved the age of majority...
...Conservative criticism might lead ignorant laymen to believe that impressionists & post-impressionists are frenzied young anarchists. But the leaders have all died. Paul Cézanne, pioneer postimpressionist, succumbed to diabetes in 1906 at the age...
...four young men regarded his naked body with disapproval, poking it in tender spots? Not only was he the son of a Grand Rabbi and even the grandson of a Grand Rabbi but he was a Grand Rabbi himself; his name was Jehuda Leib Twersky, he was of venerable age, he came from Antwerp and he had a long, black, fluffy beard. The only clue to his thoughts was a remark he made when it was all over: "I believe that it was the most wretched experience of my whole life...
Thus wrote Rewrite Man Edgar Allen Poe in the Birmingham Age-Herald last week. His name, startling, aroused no curiosity in habitual readers of the Age-Herald who know that Newsman Poe spells his middle name with an "e" where Poet Poe spelled it with an "a," and that Newsman Poe is no relative of Poet...