Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least 40 years. My mother and my grandmother sang it many years before 1924. The music and the general idea is the same as the modern version, but the words have been modernized. Other readers too will probably write giving more exact information of the true source and age of this song...
...contemporary sentimental fiction, the benign character of the aged grandmother who holds the family together, counsels the young, comforts the wretched and looks out upon life's kaleidoscopic panorama with eyes dimmed but kindly, has become one of the most popular characters in stock. But in Great Laughter Fannie Hurst has created an aged grandmother who seems destined to end ail aged grandmothers in popular fiction. In comparison with her, the teetering representatives of the oldest generation in the Jalna novels of Mazo de la Roche are just so many leaping adolescents, the doddering Forsytes of John Galsworthy...
...Fourth Folio on view, published in 1685, has the original leather binding, darkened almost to a mahogany color by age...
...Symphony concerts of this week have an engrossing sound. Mozart's Symphony in A major, (Kochel no. 201), is the first number. Composed in 1774 when Mozart was 18 years old, it represents an important stage in the composer's development of the symphonic form. Despite the comparatively tender age at which it was written, the work can hardly be classed as an early one for Mozart wrote his first symphony when eight years old. This will be followed by "Les Offrandes Oubliees" by Olivier Messiaen, a young French composer and one of four in a new Parisian group which...
Harvard's vote is much more than a waited straw showing student opinion. The Harvard community, made up of the College, the graduate schools, and the faculty, numbers well over 13,000 men. Even allowing for a small percentage of minors under voting age, Harvard polls more votes than Augusta, Maine, or Santa Fe, New Mexico, and over twice as many as the capital city of Vermont. It is, moreover, an unusual bloc, representing almost complete freedom of choice and a devoted interest in political affairs...