Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grew up without thought of any other vocation than his father's, in which he quickly showed marked ability. In 1896. after practicing medicine for only six years, he became head of the clinics at the University of Paris. This was unheard of in a country which venerates age in scholarship and government. Dr. Charcot regretted that his father had not lived to see this honor...
...trend seems to be toward candid memoirs by international ladies of fashion who, after long and hectic careers, found much unhappiness with many husbands in many different countries. The first and most scandalous of these books was Elizabeth Drexel Lehr's "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age, followed by The Countess from Iowa, Mabel Dodge Luhan's European Experiences and Evalyn Walsh McLean's Father Struck It Rich...
...picturesque Crocker family of San Francisco, detailing her travels in the Far East, her love affairs with a Japanese baron, a Chinese tyrant, a Borneo chieftain and a four-yard boa constrictor named Kaa. Aimee Crocker first became aware of the lure of the Orient when, at the age of 10, she demanded that her mother buy her an elaborate Chinese bed that she saw in San Francisco. "Very young indeed was I.'' she writes, "when the finger of the East reached out across the Pacific and touched me." No sooner had the East put the finger...
Although his language and his rhythms are modern, the world of this poet has much in common with that Gothic land of bleak plains, deserted cities, brooding cliffs and endless solitudes that characterized the poetic age of Byron...
...studies over the past twenty-five years have focused largely on stone sculpture and religious works of art found in the island county Gotland in south-eastern Sweden, which archaeologists belive has been one of mankind's most active population centers since the Stone Age. At the conclusion of his lecture series, Dr. Roosval will conduct a special study group for a small number of graduate students in the fine arts...