Word: older
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This picture of R. L. S. from a fellow-student is not inaccurate for his entire career As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation. Always he delighted to emphasize his eccentricities. His queer foreign face, bright-eyed and animated, peered forth under a battered straw hat. He was wont to wear velvet jackets, brigandish cloaks, black shirts, loose collars? the whole as shabby and disreputable as any tramp's. Thus garbed, he delighted in the astonished gaze of the passersby...
...lives . . . from the low-ceilinged room of the 17th Century ... to the ballroom where Washington danced and the fine rooms of the early 19th Century." Wandering through the passages of that new wing, members of the notable gathering saw what Lawyer Root meant. There were many rooms, built in older decades for homes, set up again for History...
...weary cry of the older generation against the younger which has outstripped it in the race. Other societies for the enforcement of virtue as interpreted by themselves will join the movement. But their efforts are fore-ordained to failure. The younger generation will persist in the enjoyment of its new found freedom until it in turn becomes the older generation. Then it too will inevitably cry out against the changing times...
...long while to eat her cake and have it too. Wilfrid would deliver ultimata-demanding that she yield "now or never." Somehow, it never seemed to be either. He told Michael all about it. Relationships grew increasingly strained, until finally something snapped and Wilfrid left for Jericho. The older generation is chiefly represented by Michael's father, Sir Lawrence Mont, ninth baronet, and old Soames Forsyte, collector of pictures. Catastrophe overtook these gentlemen through the Providential Premium Reassurance Society, known to its intimates as the P. P. R. S. Manager Elderson of the Society brought ruin upon...
...Times are not what they used to be," said the venerable Hammurabi about 1900 B. C. And the older generation has kept on saying it to the present day. But more than ordinary truth is contained in their charge that the golden age when children were seen and not heard is past. On every side Young Precocious rises up to stand upon his rights. Strangely pertinent now is the outburst of Shakespeare against the children actors of his time that "these are now the fashion, and so be-rattle the common stages . . . that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose...