Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate later unanimously elected as its President whitebearded Paul Doumer, lifelong friend of Aristide Briand, and Finance Minister in a recent Briand Cabinet (TIME, March 15). Both men were extremists in their youth, long since turned safer, saner...
...TIME, Jan. 3) there began last week the usual sacrifices of loyal subjects in his honor. Hundreds of young girls cut off their hair and burned it ceremoniously in the temples. Stalwart youths pierced veins and painted in blood devout ideographic prayers for the Tenno.* Finally Baron Mansasuke Ikeda, lifelong companion of the Tenno, set up a portrait of the "Heavenly King" in his house near Tokyo, cried, "I followed you in life, I follow you in death," and shot himself...
...respectable. Always a smooth liar, he took to professional story-telling years ago. Only since respectability went into a decline has he been really successful. On disreputable subjects like night fishing, adultery, peeking in at lighted windows and loafing, he is quite an authority, having had in them a lifelong interest. He can write about them, too, up to a certain incoherent point where the blissful inanity- or is it miracle?-of "just being alive" turns upon itself and leaves his lazy mind groping for words. Nowadays Huck Finn is called Sherwood Anderson...
...Most emphatically," said Premier Hertzog, "I no longer fear the Empire! I have been a lifelong opponent of Imperialism. . . . That was because the Empire used to be represented as a superstate. . . . But at the Imperial Conference the conception of a superstate was scrapped (TIME, Nov. 29). Today there remains no question of domination or superiority of the mother country over the Dominions. Each is now free to follow its own will...
...more than 50 years President Eliot was a regular attendant of the First Parish Church which is directly opposite the Johnston Gate and Massachusetts Hall. He was a lifelong and ardent Unitarian, and his son, Rev. S. A. Eliot '84 is President of the American Unitarian Association...