Word: mortality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...qualify for the U. S. diplomatic service, to achieve a "Third Secretaryship" of an embassy or legation, are not feats which demand more than mortal powers...
...Kritzendorf, small Austrian hamlet, there shuffled off this mortal coil one of the most picturesque characters of an age that is past. Death came to 84-year-old Peter Menth, famed in Vienna and throughout the German Empire as the world's best maker of boots...
...Humphrey Ward, educated himself at Eton and Balliol. For two years during his boyhood he was stricken with partial blindness but learned to read Braille embossed type. Now 30, he is the author of nine books The Burning Wheel, The Defeat of Youth, Limbo, Leda, Chrome Yellow, Mortal Coils, Antic Hay, Young Archimedes and Other Sketches, Those Barren Leaves...
...there is any mortal whose lot no mortal need envy, it is that of Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler. The honored president of Columbia University can seldom stir from its portals without arousing a storm of reviling quite incommensurate with the strength of his opinions. His latest mishap along the road of liberal salvation is named "The Faith of a Liberal", and what a whirlwind of scarn and opposition it has blown up! His liberalism is satirized, his progressiveness denied, and all his past is dragged forth "to affright his eyes...
...benefit of those who know the name and not the substance of the Peter Pan legend, let it be said that Peter is a figure of eternal youth who takes certain mortal children to his strange Never Never Land and there introduces them to curious adventures with Indians and Pirates. In the end, the mortal children leave him and he bids them adieu from his home in the Never Never treetops...