Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connor was a tower of moral strength in the San Francisco Police Department. Part of her job was to keep her door open to the less criminal among the city's unfortunates, listen to their stories, advise them. Last month she reached the Department's retiring age, 63, and found that the law made no provision for pensioning a policewoman. The Chronicle thereupon invited her to become its Director of Social Service, privately interview and assist readers with troubles more grave than the heart, publicly comment on their letters in a daily column...
...leaving the church for Gunnery, Headmaster van Dyke at 50 is doing what his famed father did at almost the same age, when he resigned his Manhattan pastorate to teach English at Princeton. Tertius van Dyke was in one of his father's classes there. He went with Henry van Dyke to The Hague when Woodrow Wilson appointed the author of Fisherman's Luck U. S. Minister to The Netherlands and Luxembourg. The son grew a mustache as flowing as the father's, later collaborated with him on a syndicated newspaper column, accompanied him on innumerable trout...
...other Yale work as Dunham Professor of Latin Language & Literature and master of Branford College. An Oxford-trained classicist of the old school, Professor Mendell is noted for his knowledge of Tacitus, his ability to translate the Epistles of Horace in the style of Ring Lardner, the age of his pipes, his soft-soled shoes, his unfailing politeness with miscreants. Neither retiring President Angell, now vacationing in Bermuda, nor President-elect Charles Seymour, who sat with him on a Versailles Commission to fix the boundaries of Hungary, had anything to say about Dean Mendell's successor...
Sired by a national champion, Air Pilot, whose own sire, Muscle Shoals Jake, had also won at Grand Junction, Air Pilot Sam has taken seven major stakes this season, including the U. S. All-Age at Holly Springs, Miss. last month, the National Free-For-All Championship and Canada's Saskatchewan Prairie Chicken Trials and Dominion Championship. Sam showed his mettle at Grand Junction last year. During an exercise run for the benefit of MARCH OF TIME cameramen, he collided with a pack of darky dogs in pursuit of a rabbit, was ganged, had a collie's fang...
...songs, but the background (Chicago from 1921 to 1934) is integrated with the story. Some of the 20-odd main characters wander to Manhattan, Paris, Palestine, Greece, Poland, but the principal focus is on Chicago and "the bunch'' as they grew up there. "The bunch," high-school age in 1921, were second-generation Russian Jews. Few of their immigrant fathers were well off; most of them were buttonhole makers, shoemakers, pawnbrokers, barbers, cigar-makers. Most of the mothers still spoke Yiddish...