Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Roswell Keyes Colcord, 100, oldest ex-Governor (Nevada, 1890-94) in the U. S.; in Carson City, Nev. Just before his 100th birthday he remarked: "I have never said or done anything worthy of boasting about." Of one thing he might have boasted about, his age, he said: "I have lived 20 years longer than any man should...
Died. Opie Read, 86, homespinning Tennessee wit, last of the Mark Twain school, "greatest literary shortstop of his time"; of old age; in Chicago, Ill. Huge, gangling Opie Read wrote 55 books, edited the once famed humorous paper, The Arkansas Traveler. Like Oklahoma Wit Will Rogers, he belittled his own peculiarities by exaggerating those of others. Example: When a relative entered politics, said towering Opie Read: "He was so big that they didn't put him on a stump. They dug a hole for him to stand...
...Cincinnati, Ohio, Hobo King Jeff Davis and his wife celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. Reminisced King Jeff: "I was 16 and she was 15. . . . We wrote '18' on two slips of paper and put them in our shoes. Then when the marriage license clerk asked our age we truthfully said we were over...
...sometimes used for laboratory work on diet, diabetes and drugs. But none of the cats in the college comes from Alexander's alleys. All cats are bought from laboratory animal houses which supply with each purchase a family history and a listing of the animal's age, behavior, eating habits. Alexander, continued Dr. Slanetz, undersold his competitors, for high-class cat prices range from $1.25 to $1.50, depending on size...
...last week, however, the Pimlico Special (a weight-for-age affair at a mile-and-three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and up) was recognized as the annual post-season race that determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year...