Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Henri drew pictures almost as soon as he could read, but at the age of 14 he broke a leg. The fracture was never properly set and a year later his other leg was broken too. Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and tiny, shriveled limbs. Only 4 ft. 6 in. high, he could not lift an ordinary suitcase off the ground, had special sausage-shaped luggage designed for him. Fortunately, although his aristocratic family could not stand the sight of him, they kept him well supplied with cash...
This volume, though bulky, is particularly significant of the modern age. It is a conglomerate and representative collection of works generally in blank verse, blank rhyme, and blank sense, submitted by thousands of residents of Boston and vicinity. At first it appears like a dull, almost unreadable series of names and numbers. The cosmic significance and literary value does not become evident until the reader has become experienced, and usually results in symptoms not unlike an aching in the head and eyes. It shows a tendency towards the method of expression of Gertrude Stein...
...small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past, and the newest and biggest cheap book venture, Modern Age Books, offering well-printed, well-edited new volumes on labor subjects, politics, economics, novels with a social slant and detective stories at 35? to 75?, is now being watched by old-line publishers to see if it can duplicate Penguin's success...
...inquest on Marlowe twelve years ago, uncovering a 330-year-old mystery, biographers had been forced to accept the legend that had him killed in a brawl over an anonymous "lewd wench" in an unnamed London tavern. Early Puritan writers considered Marlowe's terrible end at the age of 29 and at the height of his fame a just punishment for his atheism, wrote "See what a hooke the Lord put in the nostrils of this barking dogge!" but unfortunately did not give details. Strait-laced Victorians tended to emphasize Marlowe's dissolute habits in explaining his early...
Disappointment No. 33 is his new epical poem The New World. Homerically splendid in conception but plain dull, for the most part, in execution, the book presents a detailed catalog of slips whereby the New World has fallen from its original promise of a New Age to the "age of brass" following Appomattox; to the ''age of gas" initiated by "logolyrist" Woodrow Wilson; finally to the "age of soap-grease" sponsored by Franklin Roosevelt. Most tragic slip, in Poet Masters' reckoning, was the Civil...