Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 29, Signor Benito Mussolini will be 44; but last week the Associated Press reported that Il Duce, at two score and three, already manifests a species of partiality usually characteristic of older men, as follows...
...poor miller who dabbled in philosophy and science, Isaac Hudson Maxim was born in Orneville, Me. In his youth he pitched hay and won fame as wrestler at county fairs; but at home his sister, Lucy, four years older, could throw him with ease. The Maxims were a hardy clan. After an elementary study of chemistry at the old Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Hudson went into the printing business, soon invented a color process for the Evening Journal of Pittsfield, Mass. This newspaper was the first in the U. S. to print a daily edition in colors...
...nephew, Hiram Percy Maxim, invented the Maxim silencer. His older brother, the late Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, produced the Maxim machine gun which was standard equipment for most of the armies of the world before the War. Sir Hiram once accused Hudson of posing as the inventor of this gun and attempting to infringe upon his (Hiram's) name by setting up a company Under the name of "H. Maxim:" The two brothers were never reconciled after this...
...time a number of consular and diplomatic officers appointed between the American republics consider their work in North or South America only as a stepping stone to a bright and merry social life in the older capitals of Europe. . . . The diplomatic butterflies might well be allowed to flit to the social centres...
...strange tale--this story of a Princetonian-CRIMSON picnic on the banks of the Charles celebrated by a special issue of the Harvard paper burlesquing the break between the two Universities. Older and more experienced heads in positions of influence in these worthy institutions might well profit by the example set by their young colleagues. --Yale Daily News...