Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II introduced a croaking note of tragedy; two ravens were killed by German bombs; one died of old age. His relict, Pauline, forced her enthusiastic attentions on Gripp, the surviving male. Gripp and his wife, Mabel, an intensely monogamous couple, were so outraged that they beat up Pauline. She died of her wounds...
Quick Tricks. V.E., who had made a pile at the age of 28, now set out to lounge as grandly as he had labored. He went to live in England, added to his stable of horses till he had 125 (now down to nine), bought a large diesel yacht, entered a horse in England's Grand National. The horse fell, but V.E. and his wife, Dorothy Elizabeth Woodruff, whom he had met at Cornell, liked the country. They leased Rockingham Castle, built in Norman times, spent a small fortune modernizing it, soon became known for their lavish parties...
Born in Birkenhead, England, Powell Davies spent a robust youth on his father's farm (he rode a bull calf at the age of two, wore out five motorcycles). He almost went into British politics, finally decided that "the crucial field was an honest, believable religion," was graduated from London University's Richmond College of Divinity in 1925. For three years he was a Methodist minister in London, then left for the U.S. and two consecutive pastorates in Maine...
...these slight novels of his nonage there is little promise of Shaw's latter-day achievements (Candida, Pygmalion, over 40 other plays). Yet, in retrospect, they show horizonal flashes of the approaching storm-the brightest literary lifetime of his age...
Professor Evans roams far & wide in the age-old land of nonsense. He reminds his readers that generations of theologians debated the question of whether Adam and Eve had navels, and in the 18th Century were especially concerned over the exact location of Noah's cabin on the Ark. He comes down hard on such promotional notions as "miraculous cures" (highly profitable to the yellow press), and has fun with the thousands who earnestly believe that a curse lies upon those who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen (Mystery-Writer Edgar Wallace once noted ominously "that the very...