Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been blind from babyhood until his late 20s tried to tell what it was like to see: "At first the myriad of detail demanded so much attention I had to try not to look at things. There was, and still is, no ugliness in things that can be seen. Even a wad of paper, wet and soggy in a dirty gutter, contains design and color that are not unpleasant to look upon. All things are beautiful . . . and I have found life is beautiful, too . . . Thanks to my good vision, we face a future of independent security here on our Pennsylvania...
...line play, however. He just just has had to adapt them to a physical framework that the casual observer would associate more with stolid immovability than shiftiness. He has had plenty of opportunity to do so in his long and varied athletic past, which extends back to the late '20s, when he was an all around school star at Clare, Michigan...
...received his M.A. in 1915, and his Ph.D. in 1916. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he taught at Western Reserve University, Georgetown University, and Tufts. He served overseas during World War I and was detailed for a time to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. In the early '20s, he served as American Trade Commissioner to Belgium...
When Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria appeared, at the dawn of the debunking '20s, many critics deplored its un-Victorian tone and sardonic bias. Now, time has so mellowed Strachey's lèse-majesté that his biography has been accepted both as a classic study of Victorianism and a human portrait of the great Queen...
...socialite friends, called herself "Agnes Homberg," and spent months as a cashier, department-store detective and salesgirl. What she found out ran in Liberty magazine, then owned by her father and Cousin Bertie McCormick, as a series on how to get a job. She was married twice in her 20s, to James Simpson Jr., son of a onetime board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., and to Broker-Aviator Joseph W. Brooks, and divorced them...