Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effects of the other poisons which are habitually used by man as part of his daily life are not so useful to him in his old age as is the much-abused alcohol which is now under the ban of the reformer and the taboo of the Constitution...
...Since Prohibition, the consumption of sugar in the United States has increased tremendously and as a result of the strain on the pancreatic function, diabetes has become a more prevalent disease. Diabetes is not a prominent disease in the aged, but it is particularly true in the diabetes of old age that alcohol has a useful and prominent place in the treatment of the disease...
Consideration of old age makes young people think of famed old people. The U. S. has one important centenarian? Emily Rowland of Sherwood, N. Y. Right after the Civil War she worked establishing schools for Negroes in Virginia. She was an early worker for women's rights, temperance (alcoholic), peace, education. Nov. 20 she will be 101. She is unmarried...
...Brown alumni & undergraduates came news last week that Parson Faunce, reaching the retirement age of threescore years and ten and unrecovered from a sickness of three years ago, would be succeeded by another parson ? Doctor Clarence Augustus Barbour. Parson Barbour, staunch Baptist, prominent Rochester divine, President of Rochester Theological Seminary, will assume administrative duties in June...
...more closely than the conquests of Macedonian Alexander; football rally stickers pasted on certain parts of Brown's ill-proportioned equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius; intoxicating liquors, which Parson Faunce refuses to believe his young gentlemen drink; sexy modern novels, instanced by the case of English Instructor Percy ("Plastic Age") Marks who was asked to resign when his college novel reached Parson Faunce's sedate office. Percy Marks complied...