Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days before he was formally received among the "forty immortals," Charles Maurras was challenged to a duel. Challenger was Jean Prouvost, publisher of Paris-Soir, whom Maurras had charged with "flattering the basest instincts of the masses." Maliciously courteous, Publisher Prouvost offered, in view of Maurras' extreme age and deafness, to fight any proxy he might name. Academician Maurras declined the challenge, but not because of old age. "So far as my age is concerned," said he, "M. Prouvost can rest assured that it has left me all my strength. But I shall not employ it to whitewash...
...Age Pension convention. Just a few weeks prior, the gaunt, grey doctor had at last driven his Plan to a vote in Congress, had seen it overwhelmed 302-to-97 (TIME, June 12). He now offered his followers to resign as their leader "when you find a superman* to take over the work...
Susannah of the Mounties (Twentieth Century-Fox) is, of course, that old trouper Shirley Temple, age 10, this time a waif from a waylaid wagon train. Her role in the North-West Mounted Police is: 1) making Orderly J. Farrell MacDonald say his prayers and 2) teaching six-foot-two Randolph Scott to waltz, knees akimbo, to the tune of Learning McFadden to Waltz...
...committee recommended no specific legislation, but it did recommend a business policy: profit-sharing by which workers can share in the thumping harvests of fat years, pile up a competence against old age. (For a company which uses such methods...
...French writer André Gide once sourly said: "It is impossible to imagine a Frenchman reaching middle age without getting syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor...