Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because the Princess Royal, Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, was tripped up by her 10-foot train at the age of 14 and her coronet fell off at the door of Westminster Abbey in 1911, it was announced last week that Princess Elizabeth, 10-year-old heir to the Throne, will profit by this lesson of experience. Her Royal Highness will be supplied with a very short train not apt to trip her, a very light coronet not apt to slide off in any case, equipped with a strong elastic band...
When the results were incorporated in a graph showing the relation of spinster emotionality to age, the line rose from a low level at the tender age of 15 to a peak at 25. This was followed by a shallow dip at age 30 and another peak at 35. Then came a dip of placidity, with its lowest point at age 45, then a climb reaching the highest peak of all at 60. Author's explanation : "We may perhaps think of the two rises in the curve as associated respectively with increasing tension from the life-problems of sexual...
...death of Morse and Rogers, John K. Browne '69 becomes the oldest graduate in years at 93, while Isaac Flagg '64, only three months younger than Browne is the oldest graduate in regard to class. William E. Marsh '62, who never graduated remains the oldest alumnus, having reached the age...
Best story in the book, and one which many a reader will recognize as a masterpiece, is the reprinted The Man Who Conquered Death. Herr Fiala, an ex-doorman at a government office, had been retired for old age, spent all his savings on a life-insurance policy. All he understood about the policy was that he had to live past his 65th birthday; otherwise his wife would get nothing. But weeks before the date he had to go to the hospital; he was dying. Though the doctors all said he had no business to be still alive, old Fiala...
...whom Author Ford, wearing his gently smiling expression, has been sharpening his anecdotal claws these many years. On H. G. Wells he uses his teeth as well, because, charges Ford, Wells is the man who has trained the world into a defeatist resignation to the horrors of the Machine Age...