Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and fifty year is a respectable age; it demands either adequate recognition or honorable silence. But a Coney Island holiday lasting for months and drooling away into a hug loss for all concerned is an insult...
...pictured, in a study made illustrious by the late Barrett Wendell, as an "electric person" to whom all manner of Harvard officials, from the President down, enter for weighty conference or valued advice. Of Mr. Whitney the pamphleteer cried: "What meteoric rise is this! . . . All the requisites but age, and President Lowell does not resign...
...Author. Dorothy Dix, of course, is not her name. Fifty-six years ago, in Montgomery County, Tenn., she was christened Elizabeth Meriwether. She knew love early; married one George O. Gilmer at the romantic age of 18. Misfortune smote her. Now she says in her philosophy of life: "/ am not afraid of poverty. ... I have earned my bread and butter for many years." At 26 she found herself editing the women's department of the New Orleans Picayune (now the Times-Picayune). Her printed words were bathed in the milk of human kindness; she dispensed the type of advice...
...decade of the century, the University made endeavors to keep secret the date of Commencement, with a view toward eliminating the unpleasant congestion. It is doubtful if this measure was successful. One might as well try to hide the date of the Yale football game in this day and age...
Great oaks, says the age-old and timeworn proverb in effect, are the result of little acorns, and it might be added, acorns nurtured under suitable conditions. Just so in literature great movements spring from relatively small beginnings aided by favorable outward circumstances, and while I hesitate to call the efforts of the writers of early seventeen hundreds small, yet they were but as the bird compared to the burst of bloom which appeared toward the middle of the century...