Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explains, furthermore, why the extraordinarily complex religious situation has not aroused the people, or excited them to offer violent resistance to the Government's measures. "My first call was upon the Archbishop, Monsignor Mora y del Rio. . . . The archepiscopal palace is near the flower market, in the older part of the city. That market occupies a plaza which illustrates one of the most attractive features of Mexico, where perpetual spring prevails and beautiful flowers are in bloom throughout the year. For a peso one can make his house a perfect bower of the rarest and most magnificent blossoms, although...
...living of a dozen dealers. In his lifetime he had one enemy -Reynolds. He had no rivals. Sir Joshua and Gainsborough were his superiors; they never stooped to rival him, Yet secretly they envied, even then, his popularity. Sir Joshua in his later period (he was eight years older than Romney) would not speak of him by name. He said, "The Man in Cavendish Square. . . ." Romney never retaliated by branding Reynolds as "The Man in St. Martin's Lane," "The Dauber in Great Newport Street," or "The Lump in Leicester Square," although the latter made residence, at one time...
...earldom for some title as hoar in honor as the first half of that possessed by nouveau Lord Oxford and Asquith. Instead, little Freddy Smith, grown up into one of England's greatest barrister-statesmen proclaimed his origin by choosing the name of a city scarcely older than himself...
...clustered close drew the three comrades, with Death at their elbows, and as the oldest rose totteringly he spoke in a voice audible only for a few feet. Peter Hall, 88, whispered faintly: "We are getting older, and our ailments increasing, and feebleness and weakness make it difficult ... to meet much longer. . . ." He proposed a "last three club" or a "last two club...
...seen, and marked suspiciously, a monster, oldtime touring car-a traffic-scarred 1915 Winton or an even older Fierce-Arrow, whose tarnished brass and torn leather adumbrated a bygone respectability-rolling heavily but with sinister smoothness through his city's streets, the big tonneau jammed to the guards with a lounging, ill-favored crew of foreign-blooded males whose pull-down caps and brooding faces caused the beholder to murmur: "Lordy, what a bunch of yeggs...