Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following Gray's death in 1931 at the age of 75, a classmate described him as "sympathetic and affectionate, with a delicate appreciation for the beautiful . . . he loved poetry, wrote it himself, and longed to give the same pleasure to others that...
Ralph got his know-how the hard way. His Spanish-born parents died a few years after their arrival in Mexico City (where Ralph was born in 1908), and, at the age of ten, Ralph turned up in Shreveport, La., having gone along with a Mexican family just for the ride. He did odd jobs, went to public school, drove a taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit...
...Your Best." Part of it was good. Considering her age, the white-haired old lady had recovered amazingly well. She was enjoying the cold sunny weather and the shouts of bobsledders in the snowy street outside. She ate well, listened to the radio, had her daughter read her the Kansas City Star and the Congressional Record, as usual. Both her legs were in plaster casts, but she felt little pain, showed no signs of contracting pneumonia...
With the help of P.M.A., Uncle Joe became political boss of Pennsylvania, succeeding bulky, Rabelaisian Boies Penrose. He made Grundyism a common political noun. Grundyism was opposed to unemployment insurance, child labor laws, workmen's compensation, low tariffs, old-age pensions and labor legislation...
...outstayed his age...