Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this age of the world, religion has become something broader, something more comprehensive and better than the Christian theologians have conceived...
Miss Gather s Clear Native Metaphor for Middle-Age...
...resorts whose vogue seems to increase with their distance from normal life. The Professor's House has been declared "unsubstantial" beside One of Ours and A Lost Lady. Perhaps, but as a metaphor for that imperceptible reversal of adolescence that comes over all men, which they call middle-age and which is tragic or not, according as their lives have been spent with or without spirit, it is crystal clear, thoroughly native, unforgettable...
Grange began to play football on the high school team of Wheaton, Ill. His father, once a lumberjack, had encouraged him to use his body; he was heavy for his age. His first year in high school he played end and excited no particular awe. Next season he developed into an able quarterback, moved the year following to halfback, his regular position. He runs with a long bounding stride far better adapted to open field gains than line-plunging. He is not, as some have declared, an extraordinary sprinter. Though fast, he eludes tacklers rather by the perfect rhythm...
...fared well until he reached :he age of 36, and then the wanderlust came upon him, and he wished very dearly to convert the heathen in Frisia*. So he traveled there but was soon expelled by the King Radbod. Three years later the Pope (Gregory II) sent him to Germany converting, baptizing, success in Bavaria and Thuringia, but, hearing of King Radbod's death, he rushed back to Frisia. Three years after he returned to Thuringia and Hesse. He converted so many heathen chieftains and common people that the Pope summoned him to Rome and made him a bishop...