Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final pre-inaugural vacation. He has engaged a suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and will hold conferences at his home and at the hotel. One of the first S Street visitors was Assistant Attorney General William J. Donovan. . . . When President-Elect Hoover becomes President Hoover on March 4 his age will be 54 years, seven months. He will be three months older than the average of all Presidents at the time of their inaugurations...
...mother, father and children" seemed to evaporate and vanish. In the iridescent words of President-Elect Herbert Hoover, uttered at Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 31): "There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...
...bogeymen with which the Soviet press scares Russians was added, last week,* a potent U. S. citizen 89 years of age, gaunt, and frail with parchment skin and eyes that seem always sunken behind dark-lensed spectacles. A searing editorial in Besbozhnik (The Godless), famed anti-religious organ of the Soviet State, revealed, as horrid fact, that 65.000 "Baptist Bibles" have recently been printed in Russia. Since someone must have paid for them, and since John Davison Rockefeller Sr. is rich, philanthropic and Baptist, Editor Shpitzberg of Besbozhnik pointed accusingly across the Atlantic at Rockefeller Sr., while indicating John Davison...
...stood and declared that man needs a new concept of God based on science, a concept such as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, famed modernist preacher, might formulate. He said the ten commandments would have to be revised for this enlightened age. He declared there...
...because there are so few girls who give of themselves, if you know what I mean. I mean, there are so few girls who really give of themselves. And as a result they never have any men that they can really call friends. From the time I reached the age, if you know what I mean, I always wanted men to be my friends. To be completely the woman, as that Lampoon boy said, and yet to have men friends. And in time, I suppose, one of them would be "best friend" as I call...