Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Full title: The Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague. To be distinguished from the older but still flourishing "Hague Court," properly entitled: The Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague...
Surprisingly soon after his mother bought the fiddle for him, Harry Braun met Leopold Auer, greatest teacher of violinists. Leopold Auer was interested in meeting the adolescent minstrel as he is in meeting all youthful violinists; he remained interested in Harry Braun. When Harry Braun was a little older he met Zinc-King August Heckscher, who gave him a $25,000 Stradivarius...
...more interested anyway in the heroine of his youth, his older wife, Murasaki* of the versatile wit and mature charm. "Coming from the presence of younger women, such as Nyosan, Genji always expected that Murasaki would appear to him inevitably (and he was willing to make allowance for it) a little bit jaded, a trifle seared and worn. . . . But as a matter of fact it was just these younger women who failed to provide any element of surprise, whereas Murasaki was continually astounding him . . . her clothes scented with the subtlest and most delicious perfumes...
...seen walking briskly from tee to green on almost every golf course in the land. Dresses changed and women golfers got better. Golf became the national game and hoydens of 16 got so they could hit 200-yard drives. Mrs. Fox was not discouraged. As she got older, she took to wearing shorter dresses, walking a little faster, and hitting the ball a little harder. Girl champions appeared played for a few years, then got married and forgot their mashies. Not so Mrs. Fox. She continued to play in every important tournament. When she won, no one was surprised...
...skin of very young iguana lizards. But as the demand grew, young iguana lizards became scarce. And it conveniently happened that the same substance was found in the skin-glands of the tortoise. Amor Skin may be purchased for $16.50 by women between the ages of 20 and 35. Older women who crave tortoise skin glands must...