Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where then was Joffre, the jovial, the well beloved? Good "Papa" Joffre announced through his onetime aide-decamp, Colonel Fadry, that, at the age of 76, he did not feel equal to a two-mile walk. The end of the walk was the Crypt of Honor at the famed Hotel des Invalides, near the great, domed, imperial tomb of THE CORSICAN...
...age: four score and nine...
Died. Rabbi Leon Harrison, 62, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo., famed leader of American Jewry, who, at the age of 21, delivered an oration at the funeral services of Henry Ward Beecher; by falling before a subway train; in Manhattan. Rabbi Harrison's vertigo and poor eyesight may have caused his fall, originally designated as suicide...
...Like him she lives mostly abroad, and writes of the U. S. Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England farmer, Ethan Frame. Author Wharton is the only woman upon whom Yale has conferred the doctorate of literature...
...further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly, against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth. And that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that I will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly...