Word: agee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campaign went on, Earl borrowed leaf after leaf from Huey's book. He promised the people things they would be "able to see and feel"-veterans' bonuses, roads, $50-a-month old age pensions. Sad Sam Jones promised too, but Earl was as specific as the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He made it plain that a vote for Long was an order for material improvement. He abused the newspapers. Like Huey, he recited Invictus: "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul...
...ripe old age of 184, the Hartford Courant is still hale, hearty (circ. 61,000) and articulate. Its readers speak up, too. In a single letters-to-the-editor column last week they hurled such epithets at the editorials across the page as "boorish," "intolerant," "jaundiced," "smug," "partisan propaganda," and "poorly written." The editors hardly winced; as long as they were getting back talk, they knew that their stuff was being read...
...week Editor Wallace will retire. In a sense, both departures are overdue. The new plant, budgeted to cost $3,000,000, has already eaten up $7,000,000 and will open 18 months late. And at 73, "Uncle Tom" Wallace is eight years past the paper's retirement age...
...centuries after his birth, David's place in art history was finally assured. He had lived through an age when history marched with a heavy and decisive tread, and he had stamped it with the mark of his genius and his will. His austere neo-classicism helped set the tone, and even the fashions of the First Republic and later of Napoleon's Empire...
...Horatii were his idols; he painted them to resemble the antique sculpture he admired, posturing naked and grand in a cool world. To complaints about la nudité de mes héros, David replied simply and smugly that they had always been represented that way in the Golden Age...