Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Poet of America," the literary idol of Peru, was sentenced last week to three years' imprisonment for killing one of his enemies in what he alleged to be self-defense. While his countrymen sympathize, callous-minded foreigners may think that for José to have reached the age of 51 and have thus far escaped assassination or the gallows is a miracle...
...doubt the printer's error, but it is perhaps well to notify our less informed brethren so that they may not think the Church found it expedient to recognize the saintliness of a six-year-old child. St. Therese was a Carmelite nun, 24 years of age at the time of her death...
...death of St. Francis of Assisi, who talked with birds, who received upon his body the stigmata of the Wounds of Christ. The reigning pontiff: . . . Since our immediate predecessor has assigned this saint, who was sent by Divine Providence for the reformation not only of the turbulent age in which he lived, but ot Christian society of all times, to Catholic organizations engaged in social activities as their patron, it is only right that our children who labor in this field according to our commands should in union with the numerous Franciscan brotherhood call to mind and praise the works...
...Euclid Village, O., one Joseph Koman, 71, and one Frank Rupor, 68, shared the chores on a farm. Both had spent their strength; in the perpetual lassitude of old age they pottered and dug and weeded. Sometimes one did more than the other, and then little fights ensued in which the old man who had been for that day the most energetic berated his friend for letting him spend the little energy that life had left to him. One day last week Koman went out to feed the ducks. Rupor followed him querulously, complained that he wasted food, showed favoritism...
...have told Natalia that if she writes another novel before she is 18 years old, I don't know what I shall do." Thus the mother of Brooklyn's prodigious 12-year-old. whose poetic flights since the age of nine (The Janitor's Boy, Lava Lane)) have floored the pundits, made good Poet Erwin Markham grumble into his beard (TIME, Nov. 23, MISCELLANY) and won her an invitation to join the Society of Authors, Playwrights and Composers (Poet Thomas Hardy, President), the first invitation to any American since that other, rubicund Brooklynite, Walt Whitman...