Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, I have made careful inquiries and I regret that so far I cannot find: (a) The $10,000,000 I am said to have made in my early youth, or even middle age, or altogether, or any respectable part of it. (b) The investments that I am supposed to have in Great Britain...
Hands cupped, legs working in piston fashion, a pair of girl twins, whose age totals 28, propelled their monotonous way through the murky waters of lower New York Bay last week. At Battery Park, abode of the homeless, mecca of excursionists, they were fished out, their wet hands wrung, their likenesses caught by cameramen, their feat lauded. For 38 miles, for 7 hrs. 41 min., they had inched a zigzag course from Sandy Hook. To eschew a tide they headed eight miles out to sea, were met by another strong tide in the harbor. "We could swim back again...
...Story. Through three volumes of well-bred indiscretions Prince Genji proved himself master of the delectable art of making love. In the fourth, with old age creeping on, he proves himself master of the art of being betrayed. Kashiwagi, Prince Genji's friend, cuckolds him with his girl-bride, Nyosan. In the fury of discovery Genji plans glorious revenge. But his usual dignity, mellowed by age, prevents him from hasty action, and allows of reconsideration. For it has occurred to him that in his youth he had seduced a concubine of the old Emperor, his own father, and though...
Retired. Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, D. S. M., chairman of the executive committee of the General Board of the U. S. Navy, Wartime commandant of the U. S. Naval Academy, reaching the Navy's retirement age (64). A Texan, he entered the Navy as an Annapolis plebe in 1881. He fought at Santiago; rounded the world on the fleet cruise ordered by President Roosevelt; helped adapt the airplane, radio, torpedo, depth mine, smoke screen to Navy uses. In 1915 he worked out the modern technique of destroyer units; in 1921 he was an organizer and the first commandant...
Died. Leos Janacek, 74, prolific Czech composer (Jenufa, Sinfoinetta), who wrote more than 30 operas after he had passed 60 years of age; of pneumonia; in Mährisch-Ostrau, Austria...