Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early age he read Shakespeare, Lincoln, Rousseau, John Dewey and Santayana-a mixed bag of Western thought that may have contributed to the confusion and indecisiveness that runs through his political career...
After three months at Kansas City's Sanford B. Ladd School, 29-year-old Gwen Eades found U.S. youngsters "very much like English children," but not as far along as children the same age she knew at London's Southfield Road Infants' School. There the kids start school at three, begin to read at five-some two years earlier than...
...last week's guests was Marie Dubas, a top Parisian torchsinger whose hair, like that of many Frenchwomen, has turned red as she has approached middle age. She took off with a harrowing recitation of Kipling's My Son, then did three songs. The best: Mon Coco, Mon Coquin du Coin du Quai (My Sweetie, My Little Rascal from the Corner of the Wharf...
...record started at the age of four, when she began to steal. She spent 15 years in reform schools and prisons. She had been thrown out of bordellos for injuring patrons, had hustled outside Army camps, boasted two murders...
Victor, with an eye to the big spenders, brought out a "Heritage Series" of wheezing reissues from opera's so-called "Golden Age" at $3.50 a disc (with gold labels). Pressed from musty masters are Soprano Frances Alda's gracefully sung Willow Song and Ave Maria from Otello (recorded in 1910) and Baritone Mario Ancona's Eri tu from The Masked Ball (1907). Even scratchier is Luisa Tetrazzini's carelessly sung Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro (1908). Enrico Caruso's faltering Rachel, quand du seigneur, from La Juive, was recorded...