Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty. To observers reflecting on the position of the President's most intimate observer, it seemed that 30-year-old Son Jimmy had found himself after several false starts, had proved himself indispensable to the ablest politician in the U. S., and in so doing had, at the age of 30, already lived one of the most remarkable careers in U. S. public life...
...age when the average U. S. moppet is getting a tricycle from Santa Claus, the average Norwegian child is getting a pair of skis. In Norway children start to ski when they are 4, can usually jump 60 ft. when they are 8 and 150 ft. when they are 12. To encourage the sport, the Norwegian Ski Association each year gives 5,000 pairs of skis to children who cannot afford to buy them...
...value of his criticism of superficial thinking that arbitrarily separates the forces of government from those of business, is that the destruction of symbols which prevent a successful integration of these forces would be of permanent aid in enabling us to discharge the responsibilities of the machine age...
Reader Kurtz should know that it is as tactless to question a midget's published size as it is an actress's published age...
...golden age" which all operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans do not mind the drop in avoirdupois, but they sniff contemptuously at the comparatively microphonic murmuring that goes with...