Word: agee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year-old law partner. The partner was none other than brash, hulking Edward F. Prichard Jr., the onetime New Deal wonder boy whose brass, brains & belly (he weighed 300 lbs.) made him a campus phenomenon at both Princeton and Harvard Law School, who hustled off to Washington at the age of 24 to help Franklin Roosevelt run the country. Four years ago Prichard had come back to Kentucky in search of a political career...
...hour. But living, including laundry, meals and room rent ran to no more than $2 a week. The main dining room offered a varied bill of fare: meat cost 2? a serving, pie 2?, coffee ½? a cup. Clothing was made on the farm, and a system of old-age pensions and insurance...
Beautiful Georgette Leblanc, an opera singer who claimed to have fallen in love with his poems when she was only 16, placed her heart at his feet. They set up joint housekeeping and a salon sparkling with the brightest names of the age...
...gangling kid to something of an Amazon (circ. 1,000,000). Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Valentine, with an editorial staff of 50 girls and one man (Edwin Miller, the 27 -year-old bachelor movie editor) have turned Seventeen into a moneymaking monthly by taking dead aim on teen-age readers (average age...
...Teen-age Editors. The magazine gives them low-priced fashions, fiction, sensible articles such as "how to get along with parents" and frank discussions of teen-age problems which other magazines shy away from. Once a year, the teen-agers take over the magazine and supply all the writing and illustrations for one issue...