Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flemings of the North were generally for Leopold. Leopold's darkly luscious second wife, Mary Liliane Baels (age 36), whom he married in the grim summer of 1941, is a Fleming. She was once known as &qout;The Shrimp Queen," because her father had made a lot of money in shrimp. In Northern villages, alongside pictures of Leopold inscribed "We await our King's return," there were on display posters of bosomy Mary Liliane in a low-cut evening dress, bending over a banquet table strewn with blossoms. The caption said simply: "Fruits and Flowers...
...default. Last week, for the third time in six weeks, Premier Ho Ying-chin sent in his resignation. This time President Li Tsung-jen accepted it. Li submitted to a Legislative Yuan meeting at Canton the nomination of Elder Statesman Chu Cheng (age 73). Opposition included a woman legislator in slacks and a Hawaiian blouse, who yelled into a microphone: "He's too old for the job." Shocked oldsters came to Chu Cheng's defense. Said one: "Chu Cheng can still climb the hundreds of stone steps leading up to Chungking." The argument availed nothing. When Marshal...
...Future. Last August Margaret came officially of age. In the eyes of Parliament, she was old enough to be a Counselor of State, along with her sister and her uncles, and govern in the King's absence. She will still have to wait three more years before she comes into her own money (a ?6,000 annual allowance from Parliament and numerous legacies), but to all intents she is a grownup, with her own suite of rooms at the palace. The yawning gap of years that separates her from her elder sister is all but closed. There is only...
Ther is a notion in the land that the writings of Henry Louis Mencken were served up exclusively for a by-gone age, namely the Twenties, and it follows that they no longer merit attention. This notion was voted, on and passed, it would seem, by the professional critics of our letters, their camp-followers, and their spiritual confreres, all of whom are afflicted with the need either to treat things seriously or to ignore them altogether. Since Mencken clearly cannot be taken seriously in this day and age, the alternative is chosen, with the result that his books, except...
...watching of this process, although they do not trust themselves to play. Ask these people-both the players and the watchers-whether the pinball machine is a mere frivolity. Far from that, they will tell you, this invention is one of the most profound and marvelous of the machine age: it is a thing which can restore the soul and give evidence of things unseen...