Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author went to his brother's cattle ranch on the bank of a river in Oklahoma territory at the age of ten. He made the acquaintance of cow-boys. Indians, and bandits, and at the age of nineteen served as a cow-boy himself on the range in New Mexico and Colorado. He tells about his picturesque life in the most human and likeable fashion, and his West is even more exciting than that of flashy novels and photoplays because it has the convincing spirit of reality and historical correctness. Mr. Collins' plea for authentic portrayal of conditions and life...
...Conn., one morning last week, crashed into and wrecked another automobile which had appeared suddenly out of a side street. Two men got out of the first car. Came a policeman, who was surprised when one of the men handed him a driver's license reading: "John Coolidge, age 21, height 6 ft., residence 21 Massasoit St., Northampton, Mass." The other man was William Cunningham, chauffeur of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut. But John Coolidge, returning from a visit to his mother and the Governor in Plainville, Conn., had been driving the Governor's car when it crashed...
...True though that may be, there are more bumps than dents in the Taft makeup, mental as well as physical, and as he looks back from a double eminence never before achieved in the U. S., it may be that he sees far more than any politician of comparable age would...
Salespersons in the Bat'a shops, from Singapore to Prague, are well primed with "House organ" facts about The Founder. They know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three...
...would like to meet some one with whom I could talk a while. I am a girl 23 years of age, well educated, and am strongly possessed by the wanderlust. And-most lonely...