Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not banish age from the bench nor abolish divided decisions. It would not affect the power of any court to hold laws unconstitutional. ... It would not reduce the expense of litigation nor speed the decision of cases. It is a proposal without precedent and without justification. ... It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free representatives of the free people of America...
...platform at the commencement exercises of Jesuit University of Detroit last week a grizzled oldster nervously adjusted his hood. As the name Adam Denhardt was called, he stepped up to become a Master of Arts. What made Master of Arts Denhardt remarkable was not his age (64) but the fact that so far as could be determined he is the first public school janitor in the U. S. to earn a graduate degree...
Married. Judge Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran, 69, famed Reno divorce judge; to Mrs. Jessie M. Smith, longtime clerk of his court; in Reno. A grandmother, she gave her age as "over...
Henderson and Aldrich were the last survivors of a critical age rich and already remote. They moved freely and importantly in the world of Henry Edward Krehbiel. Philip Hale, James Gibbons Huneker, Henry Theophilus Finck. Patti was more than a name to them, and Sembrich a vivid, unforgettable presence. Each had worked tirelessly to establish Brahms in the U. S. Each had seen Debussy's worth when inferiors were yelping about his "decadence" and "lack of form." The great fight over Wagner was no legend to them: they had helped...
...picture appears to belong to the period of Goya's best portraits, as they are classified by Beruete from 1801 to 1808. The age of the sitter, the costume and the manner of wearing the hair, the similarity in style to others of that time, all point toward those years. In its summary technique and its candor of statement, its closest parallel is a fine sketch done in 1805 of Mocarte...