Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What I have to say to you is this: I have been in business and now I am out of it, and I have seen a good deal of life. I have made "profit" -enough to keep me alive to this age-but what matters to me most now is my friends. You are in business for profit, of course. You doubtless count yourselves lucky get as much advertising as you do for a paper that compared to me in years is a youngster. But do you think you will make any more money will amount to if you lose...
...shocked when pretty, dimpled Miss Pattie Field, age 24, of Denver, was last week assigned as Vice-Consul at Amsterdam, Holland...
...fender, in wait for a suitable business position and in self-pitying anguish over the rebuff a New York bud had given his rustic advances. While the rest of the country freed the slaves, built fortunes, warred with Spain, the Campions were claimed by frustration, poverty and middle-age...
While learned British scientists expatiated at Southampton a new Ice Age that will drive civilization to the earth's poles for warmth, (see above), Commander Donald B. MacMillan and his aids steamed homeward along the shores of Greenland from their attempted exploration of the Polar Sea by air, (TIME, June 22 et sec.) Their work had been of a kind which, if the prophets are right, will be rated by future generations-if not with the exploits of Columbus and Magellan- certainly with those of Hinton (Atlantic-crossing aeronaut), Leigh, Wade and Nelson (globe-fliers) and Eckener (Atlantic crossing...
...England, a well-brushed, playful, black Pomeranian dog followed, six years ago, the coffin of his master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...