Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Birthday, Pope Pius XI; at Castel Gandolfo; age 80. Long ailing, on his birthday he fainted, was unconscious 20 minutes...
...Lumberjacks from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in boots, gay plaids, several days' growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...
...college presidents started their careers so unpromisingly as James Madison Wood, who was born in a log cabin at Hartville, Mo. 61 years ago. At the age of 21, when he married Hartville's Lela Raney, he was a humble country schoolteacher. He did not get his bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri until he was 31. Five years later, when he was an instructor at the State Normal School in Springfield, Mo., he was offered the presidency of debt-laden, Baptist Stephens and accepted immediately. Within ten years President Wood had not only doubled Stephens...
Many a Journal man found last January's large bonus a help toward the 50% down payment on his stock. Balance was due within ten years, with dividends applied toward payment. Employes leaving the Journal, or reaching the age of 65 must return their holdings in the stock for resale to eligible employes. Through the trustees, they may sell at any time to other employes. To prevent sales to outsiders, employes hold "certificates of participation" with voting power, instead of actual stock...
...book has double meaning for anyone who has studied under Mr. Lowes. If there is one poet who has written in English in the past three hundred years, surely John Keats is that poet on whom nearly everyone agrees, extremist and sit-tighter alike. Why, then, in an age in which so much competent minor poetry is being written, is Keats as a model so consistently neglected? Or is he? Perhaps the answer is that he isn't, but that he translates badly, not to say unrecognizably: that our modern verse idioms, bizarre, swift, and impatient, are incapable of carrying...