Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trixie Friganza, a survival of the age which the Almanac lampoons, floats laughably about the stage, an hilarious Zeppelin brightened with a Mazda smile. "How is my dear old mother tonight?" someone asks her. "Lousy," she replies. Fred Keating, a magician by trade, stuffs birds down his shirt front in a highly invisible manner while acting as master of the rakish ceremonies. Noel Coward, Peter Arno, John McGowan and most admirably Rube Goldberg are implicated in suitable capacities, as is the author of a song called, "I May be Wrong." Credit for the rest of the Almanac's sophisticated...
...half-century before retiring. Not sad to her is the thought of what a volatile young thing she used to be. Still volatile, she refuses to think backwards, even to the bird-and-bottle parties at Delmonico's which were lavished upon chorus girls in the age of gallantry. To old codgers in club windows she leaves the memory of how she first starred in Pearl of Peking (1889). Her business is "the laugh business," which she studies seriously. Her last success before this one was Lavinia in Hit the Deck. Her home is in Hollywood, where...
...laundress whom soldiers called Katinka, he made her the Tsarina Catherine I. He decreed a new calendar. With knowledge won by toiling incognito as a shipwright in Holland he built Russia's first effective navy. On land he defeated Charles XII of Sweden, most potent warrior of the age, at blood-drenched Pultava. But Peter I was a moody, discontented man. "Whose son am I?" he roared one day from the Throne. "Yours, Tihon Streshnief ? Speak or I will have you strangled...
Sherwood Anderson, storyteller, spoke on "The Newspaper and the Modern Age," explained he had become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will...
...lived his strange interlude of sorrow, yearned for the sad Ophelia. It was here they imprisoned Caroline Matilda, idiot King Christian VII's "Queen of Tears." As Elsinore grows, imports new customs, machinery, the castle remains apart. About its solid gothic structure there is an air of infinite age and sorrow...