Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular G.O.P. He and Martha remodeled a rambling house on Indian Hill. He promoted the Cincinnati Symphony, founded by his mother, and planned and raised the funds to turn Uncle Charles' mansion into a museum housing Rembrandts, Van Dycks and other paintings of a more settled pre-impressionist age...
...will listen I answer: It is the mission of the Church to bring the light of God into man's life, to teach God's love, to serve and to save mankind; and today-in this age of demoralization and brutalization-the mission of the Church is exactly the same as it was two thousand years ago and ever shall be. To help bring peace . . . but to mankind...
...average age of the appointees is 44 years. Six are under 40 and 12 more between 40 and 45. Youngest of the group is 29-year-old Robert B. Woodward, elevated to the position of associate professor of Chemistry, who gained fame during the war through his discovery, in conjunction with Dr. William V. Doering, of a synthetic process for manufacturing quinine...
...first full postwar year see any realization of the bright, Cellophaned dreams that had been projected for it. Almost everything that was made had a prewar look. Even the Air Age, which alone got a wing through the door, failed to come through. U.S. planes circled the globe-and brought back red ink for most of the companies that flew them. Typical of the year's disappointment were the millions of ball-point pens, all of which looked like the very latest thing, but many of which would not write...
Child of Poetry. After Harriet's death, Shelley devoted himself to his poetry in Hampstead, in Leigh Hunt's cottage, where young Keats was a fellow visitor, and in Geneva, where the glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell...