Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Bobbsey Twins. In Hollywood, mentioning Kinsey was one of the few ways to break up a gin rummy game. Radio comedians, ever on the alert against censorship, tested the water with such gags as: "He's at the awkward age-you know, too old for the Bobbsey Twins and too young for the Kinsey report...
Railroad Tycoon Robert R. Young, doing some election-year thinking about a presidential candidate, spoke out for the magazine Advertising Age: "There are 10,000 businessmen who would be a better President than any of the men now considered." The interviewer wanted to know if he included himself. Mr. Young nodded...
...words were written specially for her, to an old blues tune,* but otherwise the musicians make no concessions to her age. Toni doesn't need any. Her breathy voice is grownup, her phrasing fresh, and her rhythm as good as if she had been singing since the birth of the blues...
...Wills It." Jesuit Father Lombardi believes that the Jesus who came to earth at the decline of Roman civilization, and again manifested Himself in Saint Francis at the close of the Dark Ages, is about to come again to the troubled and despairing world. To prepare the way, Father Lombardi this month is launching his biggest undertaking-a "crusade" which he calls fronte dell'amore (the front of love). Love is his rallying cry and his bridge between the spiritual and the political worlds: "Men and women, arise! A new age approaches. . . . You were born to see the age...
Cruikshank (1792-1878) was the first important British artist to make a living from book illustration. His father had been a caricaturist, and by the age of twelve, George had a job etching plates and filling in details for him. His firsthand knowledge of London's low life was to enrich Dickens' Oliver Twist for generations of readers (Cruikshank's Fagin, G. K. Chesterton once remarked, looked as if Fagin himself had done it). Few could recall Cruikshank's later illustrations for Uncle Tom's Cabin or the series of etchings entitled simply The Bottle...