Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the democracies accuse us of lack of political morality, it is because they have history behind them while we stand before ours-and youth is usually more immoral than old age. An old proverb says that the worst prostitutes become the most devout deaconesses in old age-and it is the same way in politics...
...square miles of territory in the rear of the Japanese Army they have organized "self-defense" governments. Some 75,000,000 people, almost as many as lived in pre-Munich Germany, help the Cooperative Committees and the Mobilization Committee of these governments. Boys between 14 and 16 years of age act as a special messenger service; farmers cooperate by cutting ditches and felling trees across roads to impede Japanese troop movements...
Clouds over Europe (Columbia) is no international storm warning, but the most enjoyable leg-pulling in a coon's age on such favorite cinema standbys as spies, secret war gadgets and Scotland Yard. Made in England with Hollywood money to satisfy the Buy-British quota laws, Clouds over Europe 1) elbow-digs at British stuffocracy sufficiently to get a nod from most Anglophobes; 2) contains the sort of British acting calculated to warm an Anglophile's heart; and 3) has enough thrill, pace and lovestuff to stay on the top side of any U. S. double bill...
...Aged Hackwriter Gilbert Patten, who wrote the once-famed "Frank Merriwell" books, reminisced: "The stories were written in a Victorian age. ... If I did them today, I'd make the characters more natural. Frank used to say, 'You're a great guy.' Now I'd make him say, 'You're a damned fine...
...their outgoing footsteps will be reluctant. The sound of their feet will echo back and back--back for Yale games, for reunions, for future Commencements, even as this week they hear in turn the echoing footfalls "from the age that is past...