Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...likes to hear tales of how life is lived beyond the sea. So, when his 14-year-old son, Prince Nawaf Ibn Abdul Aziz, prepared to come to the U.S., the King told him to be sure to look over a school for boys of his own age and report what it was like when he returned to Arabia...
This answer bore traces of the East's age-old reservation. Had Prince Nawaf understood more about the U.S. way of life, he might have been more enthusiastic. Principal Crane enlightened him a little. He said: "Within a radius of seven miles from this school there are more golf courses than in any other seven-mile radius in the world. You'll forget many things but you won't forget that...
...Young Bird Knows. Gandhi seriously began his own self-discipline when he went to South Africa as a London-educated vakil (barrister) at the age of 23. There he first felt the full weight of the white man's color bar. More & more he neglected a lucrative law practice to lead his fellow Indians in a fight against local anti-Indian laws...
Reactivated: H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's oldest volcano; by Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him. The volcano showed its age; the new rumblings were as sensationally noisy as the outbursts of the '20s, but now they sounded a lot more hollow: "I'm in favor of war and hope it starts soon. . . . The country enjoys war. . . . [The Japanese] are the only intelligent Orientals. . . . There's not an honest man in China. That reminds me, no American Indian has ever been worth a jolly good God damn, either. . . . [On Harry Truman] That quack! ... [On Harold Stassen] Another...
...England's new age of plain, distressingly modern "austerity" furniture and china, Grosvenor-goers crowded long and lovingly around the polished fruits of Britain's gayer days. All of the exhibits were made prior to 1830 (the official criterion of antiques), and most were British-made, although there were also spoils of the age when Britons were the world's wealthiest, most avid and widely traveled souvenir-hunters...