Word: wizenedness
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Representatives from 300 U. S. colleges assembled at Chicago for the eleventh annual convention of the Association of American Colleges. Among this learned congress were professors of every known species, from hale and hearty, square-shouldered, square-jawed educators to wizened, bespectacled pedants.
Time and again and again, a wizened little old man flung himself feverishly, but feebly, upon a young Hebrew desperado at the Velodrome, Manhattan. Thus assaulted, the desperado angrily smashed the old man back and down, with crushing blows on the face. At length the ancient, blood-smeared and sick...
Lenin's successors paid adulation to their defunct leader by renaming the city Leningrad. Western editors didn't take much notice. The Soviets, by transferring the capital to Moscow and by their economic policies towards foreign trade, have depressed Leningrad, nee St. Petersburg, from a population of 1...
Hungary has a population of 7,840,832, according to the 1921 census. Of these, over 5,000,000 are peasants and almost solidly in favor of a Habsburg King. Recently when Admiral Horthy proposed to make a visit to an agricultural district, the peasants declared that they would be...
By test of "The Hottentot," last evening, by good report of previous pieces, performance at the St. James escapes equally the usual shortcomings. Only one player in William Collier's whilom farce acted in conventional stock-company fashion--with half an eye and more on the audience, incessant play of...