Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lone horse. As a matter of fact, he lest his kingdom anyway, and Henry Richmond, who picked up the crown from a thorn bush and became Henry VII of England was the man who started Britain on the road to the glory and success of the Elizabethan age...
Soviet philosophy allows no restraint to be put on children. Even in the schools a student studies only those subjects he fancies. These wolflike boys and girls, all about the age of 13 or 14, are thus allowed to prey upon society because they prefer to prey and to roam the country, although homes have been provided for them and some 1,900,000 have thus been taken care of, taught trades, etc. But the homes are evidently not all they are supposed to be, for recently the head of one institution was arrested because he placed iodine...
...Strange office boy, he wanted to investigate art and for this purpose pinched his living; learned shorthand; did odd jobs; and finally went to Paris on his savings. Back from Paris with a thorough artistic background, he started writing; won a contest on the old Baltimore News at an age when most bright young men are beginning to succeed, took the resulting job offered him and in five years was managing editor, at an age when many young men are beginning to admit failure. His later years were devoted to the Baltimore Evening Sun and Baltimore...
...Book.? As a small boy, Author Durant lived with his parents and his many brothers in factory towns of Massachusetts & New Jersey. His career as schoolboy differed little from that of any other intelligent schoolboy except that at an early age Author Durant received an invitation from a Roman Catholic Priest: "You must study more, and pray more, and always bear in mind that the church has chosen you to be one of our servants. . . ." For some years Jack (as Author Durant has chosen to call himself in these pages) accepts the invitation to be a priest...
...suffered from the handicap of an innocent and benign exterior. Old gentlemen used to pat him on the head in public places, and kind relatives used to supply him with constant provender, the gentlemen with buffalo nickels, and the ladies with peppermints. A utilitarian even at his early age, the Vagabond would persist in harmonizing his actions with his appearance, to his immense material profit and moral advantage in times of stress...