Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rode down on the subway reading a copy of TIME and got off at Wall Street recently. Since my age is but 59, I resent the implication of "old," if I really am the man seen by Mrs. Phipps...
...States man Tang Shao-yi, sent her to college in the U. S. she naturally chose Barnard. There, in Manhattan, the vastly rich young girl could both study and taste very nearly all the U. S. has to offer-except "scenery." (She traveled during vacations. She saw.) At an age when Smith and Wellesley girls are translucent she was as opaque and baffling to a diplomat as to a dowager...
...satisfied Gillette Razor directorate Frank J. Fahey, Vice President and General Manager, said in Boston last week: "The company has sold 70,000,000 razors, leaving a tremendous potentiality. The number of young men annually reaching the shaving age runs into millions; each of these individuals is a safety razor possibility. In addition there are the ladies who have become factors in our company's distribution. The company has sold 3,500,000,000 blades...
...Adventurous Age. When George Tyler announced the return of Mrs. Patrick Campbell after a twelve-year absence from the U. S., greybeards revived the legends of her fiery temperament and explosive tantrums. They recalled how, in 1902, she ordered tanbark dumped on the trolley tracks outside the Republic Theatre to quiet the din of cars banging over the switch, how vigilant politicians made it a national issue, how Mrs. Pat made it a quarter of a million dollars' worth of publicity. They were shocked when "the glorious madwoman" stepped before the footlights last week. She had become majestic...
...age of "revelations," of intimate biography, when no historical figure is a hero to any fair-minded man who will read the truth as presented by the modern biographer. Realism is the watchword, and while it mercifully covers a multitude of sins for the biographer, it exposes those of his subject even more satisfactorily. Ludwig's "Napoleon" is in the realistic and intimate vein, it is inexorable in its determination "to examine this man's inner life; to explain his resolves and his refraining, his deeds and his sufferings, his fancies and his calculations, as issuing from the moods...