Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paunchy with flat nostrils and thick lips stood trial for his life. He had a shrill-tongued wife; by her, three "dull and fatuous" sons. His father was a sculptor, his mother a midwife. But he had been soldier, statesman, teacher; he was Socrates, the greatest liberal of his age. In Athens, 500 judges heard the accusations brought by Meletus, the poet; Anytus, the tanner; and Lycon, the orator. The accusation ran: "Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing new divinities, and, secondly, of corrupting the young." Socrates, with brilliant irony, pleaded guilty...
...brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased by movable screens, workers in actinic glass houses would get a maximum of insurance against rickets, pneumonia, tuberculosis. . . . Other exhibits prepared for the Exposition...
American suffragists have for a long time ridiculed the action of porliament in withholding the vote from women until they are thirty years of age. But in England the flapper is at a mile stone. In his last campaign Mr. Stanley Baldwin promised suffrage equality to the young women. Bearing the next election in mind, he must choose either the threatened fury of his ultra-conservative supporters or the more terrifying resentment of some millions of women in England who already have the vote by virtue of their being over thirty years of age...
...Story.* "Someone had asked Mary Viner as a child why she so disliked going to school, and had received the pregnant reply: ' 'Cos one does the same thing every day'; and at the age of 23 Mary was still resenting repetition. Only more so, because life had become more busily full of dreary tidyings and cleanlinesses, of washings up and washings down, of moments that smelt of yellow soap, and tea leaves and paraffin...
...psychology is more akin to pathology than to an interpretation of manners and characters which is the true junction of psychological fiction. Taking a family of six children she follows their careers through the stormy era of adolescence and leaves them stranded desolate on the rocks of approaching middle age. Admittedly the family is neurotic, but disease hardly accounts for the series of catastrophes which these brothers and sisters are made to endure. Drunkenness, seduction and insanity furnish the foundation of Miss Sinclair's book. In their wake remain the utter ruins of a social group...