Word: old
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when General von Galgotzy finally retired for old age a few years ago, the same Archduke, Leopold Ferdinand von Habsburg* wrote...
Though unquestionably guilty, the nice old gentleman has so many potent friends in Spain that all through the spring, summer and fall he lived luxuriously in the officers' quarters of a Spanish battleship anchored off Valencia. He has just been acquitted by the supreme war tribunal before which he resolutely professed his guilt...
...Vienna a shrewd, cantankerous old gentleman died at the age of 93. Throughout Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, stiff-backed, military men grew grave at the news, then flooded the press of Central Europe last week with waves of reminiscence. For General Anton von Galgotzy, of the Imperial Army of Austria-Hungary, deceased, was a character, perhaps the most original, outspoken, best loved officer ever to wear the gold collar of a General of Division. In an army proud of its title of "the best dressed army in the world" he once telegraphed a firm of Viennese ready-made tailors...
...Galgotzy," he hinted ponderously, "we are growing old...
...Paul said (1 Timothy 5:23): Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake. . . . The Saviour, whose first miracle on earth was to turn water into wine, once said: No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, the old is better (Luke...