Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only trouble that side-burned, spectacled Painter Sir John has had with portraits of his wife. Observers recalled that Lady Cunard offered a Lavery portrait of Lady Lavery to the Tate Gallery in 1923 (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923). The portrait was refused not because of the subject's age, not because she was not Irish. The committee simply did not like...
...have attained a ripe age. My children number three. And I see no reason why a gentleman should take other than Acton's view...
...James A. O'Gorman Jr., the smooth, young, curly-haired, Princeton-educated son-of-the-system whom she defeated for the Council, took her to lunch the day after she beat him. Debating against Mr. Phelps last week she cried: "I am not running on my looks, my age, possessions or sex. I ask no chivalry...
Though this stiff pill was swallowed without protest, the National Assembly proceeded to deadlock and then to balk when instructed by King Amanullah to pass a bill raising the marriageable age of females to 18. Occidentals may not realize that the chief distraction of many an aging Oriental is his new wife, aged say 14, or in extreme cases as low as seven. The Afghan National Assembly, however, positively declined to ratify the measure...
...Murder Case, The Greene Murder Case, is not S. S. Van Dine. But he does wear a Van Dyke beard. Also he confesses in the September American Magazine: "I am 39 years old-oh. well, call it 40, since my birthday falls next month. ... I have written since the age of four, when a poem of mine was printed in my home paper. ... I attended seven different colleges here and abroad [including Harvard]. ... I came back to America on the last western trip made by the Lusitania, and went to a sanitarium for two months." In short...