Word: decayed
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...must bow to the inevitable "what and what and then again", retreating with "that lovely lady" and her friends to the shades of an Anglo-Armenian oblivion. Like many even bonnier brethren he must watch the dust collect upon his once bright leaves while bastard epigrams evince a quick decay...
...attempt to fill the void occasioned by the decay of religion by adapting the present system of distribution to include a course in either psychology, philosophy, or social ethics, or a new course combining the three and by organizing a new science course in each of the major departments of science, which, in addition to giving the laws of nature, should seek to explain them in terms of philosophy. Such courses would be given jointly by members of the science departments and the department of philosophy, and would satisfy adequately the spirit of the science requirement...
...SLAYER, AS FUGITIVE, AS BOY BEATER, AS FIREMAN. Two more photographs meaningly compared his features with those of Harrison Noel, mentally delinquent protagonist of a murder trial now occupying national attention. A chronological table of Thaw's misdemeanors bore the title: "Highlights in the story of wealth, mental decay, vicious living, murder and insane asylums, depicting the life of Harry K. Thaw. . . The Rip Van Winkle of the Bright Light District is hitting it up again. . . His bloated face and protruding eyes mark him as he reels about the night clubs of the roaring forties. . . Some twelve girls have...
Hale old men with the bodies of boys, hale old men with the minds of children, grand seigneurs, curmudgeons in every condition of physical decay, Paunch, Thin-Shank, Webfoot Waddle-Duck, and erect, haughty old men with life's ensign still crimson in their cheeks, journeyed to the Apawamis Club in Rye N. C., to play in the annual U. S. Seniors golf tournament Among them were famed lawyers and financial figures, a retired rear admiral,* the president of a great insurance company?; they played, each according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?...
...Russell, looking into a future based upon sex equality, discerns the first appearance upon earth of a civilization that will never decay...