When you know you’re over the hill

‘The young lady who had given me her seat offered to help me up when I got to my destination,’ writes John Bartholomew. Photograph: Chrisdorney/Getty Images/iStockphotoThe term “hatriotism” was coined much earlier than the 1940s (Samuel G Freedman, 7 August). The first mention in Google Books appears in the September 1923 issue of the Advocate: America’s Jewish Journal, based in Chicago, where it was used to describe antisemitism in Germany. The Advocate article sug