Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening-night reviews had a happy ending too. Said the News Chronicle: "The production is by no means a travesty. It is elegantly done . . ." The sober Times went even further with its approval: "Tate's version affords an interesting peep into the Age of Reason, and the long, leisurely, sensible century that followed . . . The additions are in authentic baroque, as curled and complacent and conventional as the peruke...
Into Chicago's Sherman Hotel last week trooped 600 secretaries of U.S. businessmen, to attend the National Secretaries Association's annual convention. Most of them had passed the age when they daydreamed about marrying the boss. They concentrated on such serious business as getting a recognized status as "certified professional secretaries," just like the accountants...
Sweepers to help them. In 1788, partly because of Hanway's appeals, Parliament set the minimum age for climbing-boys at eight years...
Fifteen years later the House of Lords hesitantly passed a bill which merely raised the minimum age for climbing-boys to ten. It was 1840 before climbing-boys were legally abolished, and the law was still full of holes a small boy could get through. In 1864, under the sponsorship of the last, great champion of the climbing-boys, Lord Shaftesbury, the regulations were tightened, and in 1875 the practice was finally broken-67 years after Britain had abolished Negro slavery...
...happened that a few months later a recruiting officer traveled through the village and commandeered ... all the boys of the son's age who were able to carry arms, but not the crippled...