Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Return to the horse and buggy age be darned! Harvard is ready. One hundred and forty-four surviving graduates of the Veterinary School, now 36 years defunct, will spring into the traces. Annually they signify their willingness to do so, writing a small 'v' after their names on the questionnaire sent out by the Alumni Office...
...Author Noyes's birth Oneida Community, then 22 years old, was a going concern, its ways natural and agreeable to its colonists.' At walking age he was turned over to the communal nursery-the Drawing Room-was matched for signs of improvement over Outside breeds. His childhood he remembers as a happy time, clouded only with infrequent "criticisms." Meals were tasty and generous, the Bible was made a friendly, interesting book; the spacious brick Mansion House, the workshops and farm were rich exploring grounds, the grown-ups gave Gilbert & Sullivan operas, the children felt important doing part-time...
When John Keats died of consumption in Italy (1821) at the age of 26, he left two girls behind him. Both were named Fanny. One was his orphan sister, the other was Fanny Brawne, to whom he was engaged. Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne are classics in love-letter literature; hers to him were buried with him. In spite of such kind words as Amy Lowell's (John Keats}, Fanny Brawne has generally figured in Keats's story as a light-headed minx who failed to appreciate him. Last week 31 letters of Fanny Brawne...
Fanny Brawne wrote her first letter to Fanny Keats a few days after she had said her last farewell to John. The last one was written four years later, when Fanny Keats had come of age, escaped from the restrictions of her foster parents and could meet her friends at will. The two girls had never met when they began their correspondence; Fanny's first letter is on the formal side. But soon they were chattering away intimately about clothes, books and callers, sending each other patterns, discussing mutual friends and enemies. At first Fanny's references...
...death, was first. She married a Spaniard, one Valentine Llanos, settled in Spain. Fanny Brawne followed suit when she was 33 and her grief for John was 12 years old. As Mrs. Louis Lindon she became the mother of three, a tranquil matron; she lived to a ripe old age...