Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Business-likeness is not notably a Byrd trait, though William Byrd II (1674-1744), who outshines his father as founder of the line, had the sagacity to marry two heiresses. Harry Flood Byrd started being businesslike at the age of 14, when he gave up school to take over his father's bankrupt Winchester Star. The Star has paid from then till now. So have another, larger Byrd-paper, the Harrisonburg News-Record, and the 1,500-acre Byrd apple orchards...
Professor Lipman believes that the ancient germ spores have been sealed up in minute cases, similar to the cocoons in which larvae rest. It is well known that microbes can live through great heat or cold, and remain quiescent for long periods. But the age of Professor Lipman's rods astounded even him. He duplicated the experiment with organisms from Pliocene rocks, one to two million years...
...Lady Grace Hay-Drummond-Hay, formerly Grace Marquerite Lethbridge, is the young widow of the late Sir Robert Hay-Drummond-Hay, C. M. G., His Majesty's Consul General in Syria, whose second wife she became in 1920 when he was 74 years of age. With Karl H. Von Wiegand, Lady Drummond-Hay will keep Hearst papers in constant touch by radio with the progress of the trip...
...Would-Be Gentleman is an excessively poor translation of Moliere's title Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; the rest of the modernized adaptation with which Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre opened its season was not so strikingly bad but it somehow made the old farce act its age. Only the scene wherein M. Jourdain superintends ironic and Turkish nuptials is as funny as the arty members of the audience thought the rest...
Last year her petition for citizenship was refused by a Chicago District Court. Later the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, directed the granting of citizenship, on the ground that Mme. Schwimmer was naturally disqualified from bearing arms by reason of her sex and age...