Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norris, by the vote of the American Athletic Association last Saturday night in Omaha, Nebraska, is now the national long distance swimming champion of the United States. Some half dozen years age he was limping about in a cast in Richmond, Vs., with medical opinion divided on whether he would ever be anything but a cripple...
...first article takes the young Prince through the Royal Naval College at Osborne (he had trouble with math) and to Dartmouth ("I ... even sang in the choir"). It closes in good serial form: with his grandfather on his deathbed, as the curtain came down on the Edwardian age...
Dali himself, a man with a delicate handlebar mustache, was as soberly anxious to please as a well-behaved schoolboy at a grownups' party. Modestly, he implied that not one of the paintings was really a finished masterpiece. Said he: "I have just reached the age of 44 and have finally decided that ... it is my duty to start painting my first masterpieces...
...losing side, and it was not feigned; the rush of blood from the cheek after the shameful admission, the greenish swaying sickness of repentance are inimitable. It is not an attitude which has been taught them by an exploiting class. They were born into a tongue-tied age, and neither their school teachers or the culture within their reach had given them such positive instruction. The judgment they passed on their own disloyalty and the loyalty of others was a spontaneous reaction to experience...
This faith Rebecca West tries to express with a tonality equal to its meaning. Thus, in a prosy age, her style strives continually toward a condition of poetry, and comes to rest in a rhetoric that, at its best, is one of the most personal and eloquent idioms of our time...