Word: old
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reputable Dean Wu Chung-chieh of the department of Education at Minkuo University, China, last week announced that he had found recorded in Imperial Chinese chronicles dated 1777 the fact that one Li Ching-yung had been imperially honored for being 100 years old, that 1877 annals reported the same Li Ching-yung celebrating his sooth anniversary, that the same ancient is now 252 years old and is still living in Kai-shen, Szechwan Province...
...health officers he named 80 as the maximum age to which most people could aspire. Medical, public health and sanitary work the past half century has increased the average life of the whole population by 20 years, but has not been able to prevent senility and the deterioration of old age, has not lengthened human life appreciably...
...Wailing Wall in Jerusalem last week a 90-year-old rabbi with a flowing white beard prayed for peace in a quavering voice. But this year's most notable observation of Rosh Hashanah, was in Manhattan, where the new and beautiful Temple Emanu-El, costing $8,000,000, was opened. Famed members of this synagog include, besides the late great Louis Marshall (TIME, Sept. 23), Daniel Guggenheim, Benjamin Mordecai, Adolph S. Ochs, Roger Williams Straus. Rabbi Nathan Krass told them the temple signified that "man doth not live by bread only...
Disraeli (Warner). The efforts of a Jewish prime minister of England in 1875 to buy a public utility for his kingdom have been made into a picture as exciting as a detective story. This is odd but it is odder still that, although Louis Parker's old play is no more than effective theatrical plum pudding, it should seem at times almost literary. Both of these facts are principally due to George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons...
CLASS OF 1902-Ernst Glaeser-Viking ($2.50). In All Quiet on the Western Front (TIME, June 17), Author Erich Maria Remarque wrote of the old-young men of Germany who were destroyed, whether they died or not, on the battle front. Class of 1902 is by a younger and hence luckier author. For the "class of 1902" to which Author Glaeser belonged, was the German Army designation for those born in 1902 who, aged 12-16 in 1914-18, were just about to be called to the Western Front when the Armistice was signed. Thus Author Glaeser remained, his novel...