Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writes as follows: "I am nearly 90 years of age and I want more time to rest, so I charge U.S. $11 per sq. foot for my paintings abroad. I hope all is well with you." Also, he wants ... "a copy of the American magazine in which someone has written about...
Easing in to the dock at Yorktown, Va., Harry Truman had one small reminder of the political storms to come. The Williamsburg was overtaken by a small runabout carrying a dozen teen-age boys and girls alternately shouting "Hurrah for Thurmond!" and singing Dixie...
...after the end of World War II. The first of 9½ million young men between 18 and 25 stood in patient lines. First to register were the 25-year-olds, who would also be the first to be inducted. Thereafter, eligible men would be called in order of age. Most veterans, married men, men with dependents, public officials, research students, farmers and many others would be deferred. As a starter, the Army asked for 10,000 men for November induction...
...read, however, as a social document, The Pleasures of the Jazz Age has the same kind of interest as a report on mating customs of ancient Egyptians. Here the reader can find such characteristic creatures of the jazz age as the hot & cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced...
...Frederick Lewis Allen has proved, the age of only yesterday, and the day before, is already history and ripe for retelling. .There is even gold to be found in ransacking the closets of the 19205-the era of the flapper and the grimacing mobster, the devotees of sex dives and bathtub gin, the frilly esthetes and champions of companionate marriage. William Hodapp has pasted together, with some success, an anthology reflecting the era through its fiction. The stories provide dramatic evidence of how drastically and quickly the patterns of U.S. life can change during a lifetime...