Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have not happened to find myself in such a neighborhood recently "At his age the noble lord ought not to borrow from the ebullitions of the younger peers...
Died. Mrs. Matilda Bedle Voorhees, not quite 105; of old age; in Asbury Park, N. J. Last spring Sir Charles Frederick Higham, famed London advertisingman awarded her, as the oldest teadrinker, $500, a gift from the India Tea Growers' Association...
Rich and varied was the aeronautical menu. Detroit offered something sure to please guests of every age and every turn of mind, commercial, military, technical, sporting, juvenile...
...this statement, Anatomist Kappers cast doubt on current notions about nicotine. Many U. S. doctors have contended and often hoped to prove that smoking does no harm. In Newark, N. J., five children of the Fillimon family have been smoking full-sized cigars since the age of two. The oldest, Frank, 11, now averages five cigars a day. All of these children appear healthy, go to school regularly, get good grades...
...Rotarians roared lustily at this and proceeded to other diversions such as listening to the music of the 50-piece Sauk Centre Boys' Band whose members range in age from seven to fifteen. They toured the city in cars and busses, played baseball and golf, attended the movies, and witnessed a pageant which traced the growth of Rotary from the time 24 years ago when it originated in the mind of one Paul P. Harris, Chicago lawyer, to the present when it has 140,000 members from 44 countries...