Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, since some of his regulars are still unable to play both ways, Valpey was unable to give out a starting defensive eleven. Everybody will go on defense, according to that age old maxim that the best defense is a good offense...
...running for office for the first time in his life, knows that a well-informed student group will be an invaluable political asset now in the days preceding November 8, as well as later in Boston's political future. In the organization of youth groups, the 21-28 age group, Hynes leads all the other candidates who are running for mayor...
Relative Chastity. Guy's doting mother could find no fault with her good-looking son. In her old age she was to recall proudly that "His childhood was absolutely chaste. It was not until he was sixteen that he had his first liaison, with the lovely E ..." A mother who thought 16 an advanced age for the beginning of love was hardly likely to overtrain him in discipline. Accordingly, when the family lost its fortune in the Franco-Prussian war and Guy had to become a clerk in Paris, he complained bitterly...
...Cage's chief claim to novelty is that Lowry has exaggerated it, overplayed it and touched it up with interludes of near-slapstick adventure. His Richard Black of Gorker Street in Cincinnati decides to become a great writer at the age of nine, and on his attic typewriter pounds out stories of Tan the Wonder Dog, of Detective Jim Burdett, of the tenth-round comeback of Battling Ramsey. Later, influenced by Caldwell, Hemingway and Faulkner, he turns out endless stories of prostitutes, gangsters, murderers. In college he edits a highbrow magazine and runs away with the wife (five years...
Cobb's companion, whose name was withheld because of his age, was carrying a toy pistol. He was immediately released to his parents. Police thought that the pair's unusual behavior in the H.A.A. ticket office pointed to an attempt to size up the layout of the place before a holdup, rather than an actual crime...