Word: agee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from the Finnish. Originated by Helsinski University's Psychology Institute and expansively called What Sort Of Person Does This Voice Belong To? the program presents nine inexperienced broadcasters, has each read for one minute from the same text. Listeners are asked to determine each reader's sex, age, height, build, degree of seclusiveness, personality, characteristics, profession. In one case the Finns made it harder by having twins speak alternate sentences...
Winthrop Rockefeller, 26, fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was initiated last week into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, (which is devoted to the care of retired circus performers), forced to wear costumes depicting the life of a Rockefeller from babyhood to old age. Announcer Tex O'Rourke, master of ceremonies, supplied a running commentary: "He worked hard and long in the Texas oilfields until, at the end of one week, he rose to vice president. After attaining this position, he took a year's vacation...
...overcoat on the coldest days and goes about like a college boy, with garterless socks drooping over his shoes. He is full of years and honors, and more cognizant of the latter than of the former. But he was 70 last May, and Johns Hopkins requires retirement at that age. This year is his last as a regular member of the University faculty.* He is doing important work, however, and it has been understood that he would go on with it after retirement. At the last moment Dr. Wood persuaded Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman that since his labors...
...Zoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings is another Johns Hopkins notable who is retiring this year because of age. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who achieved his greatest newspaper fame as the eye surgeon of Siam's ex-King Pradhjadipok, retired unwillingly in 1934, died a few-months after...
...That Roosevelt 'bewitches' people," challenges Ludwig, "is one of the silliest objections raised by his opponents." Far from his personal charm being fake, says Biographer Ludwig, it is the very key to Roosevelt's unique "destiny," of the greatest "symbolic significance for our age," the reason, in fact, that "the spirit of the biographer found itself akin to that of his subject." As here traced, the decisive fact is that Roosevelt was born of Hudson River landed gentry, thus naturally acquired simplicity of manner, a distaste for arrogance and showoff...