Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, over the granite towers of Balmoral Castle fluttered Princess Margaret's own new standard.* She was 18. Coming of age meant that she will have to attend more & more official functions (her first: Juliana's inauguration as queen next month). She will also have more freedom from family control on such matters as staying out late, wearing makeup, dressing smartly. Margaret dislikes her royal duties, though she enjoys the prerogatives of her station. When she was down with measles last May she remembered a young Highland officer of her acquaintance who had had measles...
...Czechs, now behind 2-0, came back to win the doubles. Playing his second singles, against Jaroslav Drobny, Adrian Quist had a chance to clinch the matches. But age told: he got off to a good start, only to lose, 6-8, 3-6, 18-16, 6-3, 7-5. That left Australia's Davis Cup chances in the hands of Billy Sidwell. He polished off Czech Cernik in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. That spelled victory for Australia...
Even his enemies admit that he tells the news. Most Hoiles readers have little choice, anyway: six of his seven papers are monopolies. Hoiles has survived two dynamitings, four strikes, and floods of counter-denunciation. Sample (from a Colorado Springs pastor): "They say Hoiles has a Stone-Age philosophy. That is an injustice to the Stone Age...
...work, Mother Agatha gives herself little credit. But she has her satisfaction. She can't help being pleased when her alumni come back ("they seem to love to bring their children to see me"). It is not out of vanity, she insists, that she carefully conceals her age. Says she: "If I told it, they might try to retire...
...PLEASURES OF THE JAZZ AGE (417 pp.)-Edited by William Hodapp-Farrar, Straus...