Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...age when most public men are only beginning to catch the limelight, when Mr. Baldwin was unknown and Mr. Bonar Law had not held office, he looks back on 30 years of romantic adventure that would provide material for a dozen normal lives which would find a place in the Dictionary of National Biography; on experiences of war in more continents than Napoleon fought in; on a library of books that would not do injustice to a life spent in literature, or journalism, lecturing, painting; on a political career more full of vicissitudes than any since that of Bolingbroke...
...panegyric of Wilhelm II, Mr. Bigelow paused to eulogize the onetime Kaiser's grandsire, Wilhelm I: "He was a grand old monarch, that first Emperor William-Der Greise Kaiser as his people fondly called him. Nor can I recall without emotion how myself and other boys of my age, whether American or German-how proud we were when privileged merely to see his venerable form when he might be walking in the park. But when we were so fortunate as to catch his eye and have our salutation returned with a smile of ineffable charm, then our joy knew...
...ashes, the ashes of $1,500,000, of which only a $500.000 phoenix would arise in insurance. Parents with daughters in need of finishing, friends of all that is genteel and established in private education, waited to see if the Ely sisters, now in their age, would permit fire to terminate a tradition which years and geography could never change...
This sideshow life impressed him finally as no commerce for a man approaching middle age. So he journeyed to St. Louis, opened a gasoline station for himself. This was a real business; a man was more like his fellows . . . turning the pump crank, making change. But when he would stoop to open an oil cock, his hanging plait of fat interfered. He decided to rid himself...
...Arnheim, Holland, Aeneas Alexander Mackay, 13th Baron Reay, Chief of the Scottish Clan of Mackay, self-exiled in the Netherlands because of a feud between his ancestors and Charles (1600-1649), summoned his relatives to celebrate his "coming of age." Proud, they beheld him stand before them, 6 ft., 9 in. in his stockings, "the tallest peer...