Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marry him, I understood right away. ..." Said Seaman Shapperly who plans to marry Yvonne Jeanne Gagelias before leaving France, take her back to his home in Haw River, N. C.: "I'll soon have my sweetie talking hillbilly instead of sign language." One Raleigh bridegroom, under age, wired home for permission to marry, got back a cable: "Good luck. Can't be much worse than one you had here...
...Scott took her out in a canoe and brushed her up so well that Nor graduated from Vassar without any further trouble with algebra, at 28 has just finished her interneship at the Philadelphia General Hospital. He wisely started Winkie earlier, taught her to solve algebraic equations at the age of 5 by telling her that the equal sign was like a seesaw and the numbers on both sides were like children. Father Scott coached Winkie for the geometry in her College Entrance Examinations for Bryn Mawr, in which her mark was 99. Net gave no trouble until...
...banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed New England tragedy, Ethan Frome. In 1920 she won the Pulitzer Prize with The Age of Innocence...
...Joslyn officer and employe, must begin to pay from 2.5% to 5% of his salary into a trust fund to which the company gives not less than 10% of its annual earnings and not more than four times the total contribution from employes. On retiring because of disability or age, Joslyn workers receive the fruits of their savings and the company's profits in a lump sum which often not only provides for them but makes them comparatively rich. The fund now totals $742,600 and payments totaling $266,000 have already been made. One recent pension...
Babe was captured in India at the age of ten or eleven. She was transported to the London Zoo where she remained until boisterous Showman Barnum blandly cajoled her away from the directors for $10,000. With his circus, she performed all over the U. S. and Europe. In later years, when she went with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, millions gawked at her and fed her peanuts. Always leader of the parade, Babe was the unquestioned monarch of the elephant picket line. But three years ago General Director William M. Mann of the National Zoological Park persuaded...