Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's gilded, gaslight age, the cave dwellers (native Washington society) took over. The last of their queens were wealthy Mrs. John R. McLean, a Virginia lady of formidable presence, and her convivial, raucous daughter-in-law, Evalyn Walsh McLean, who died in 1947. Evalyn wore a diamond (the Hope) as big as a tiger's eye, and called men impartially "darlin' boy." At her crowded parties (at the old and new "Friendship"), men had to bring their brains with them; Evalyn delighted in pairing mortal enemies at dinner. Said an old friend, admiringly: "Evalyn had spite...
Perle Mesta is shaped to the mold of a Rubens model who has reached the age of a Helen Hokinson character. Her figure requires stern corseting; she carries a diet book in her purse, consults it before ordering. Except for her parties, she hates to spend money. Once she walked two blocks to Democratic headquarters because her hotel charged 12? for a phone call. People are always trying to wheedle money out of her; she does her own ordering for big affairs, and drives a good housewifely bargain. Says Perle, thrusting out her chin: "I'm stingy. That...
Griffin, who recently finished a "Red" investigation of Harvard and the Ivy League, wired the Council demanding complete information on the debaters. The data he requested included the age and class of the participants, along with their backgrounds and fields of concentration. When he received the statistics, Griffin advised that he "would make every effort to get here for the event...
...renowned back-breaker assumed its present form, surveying Western Europe from the Fall of Rome to the present. It saw glorious days under President Lowell as the core of Harvard education, a pre-requisite for every undergraduate in History, Government, and Economics. In recent years, however, its age has begun to show, and its passing is no surprise...
...College, where she joins her pretty daughter (Betty Lynn) in pursuit of higher education and a youngish English professor (Van Johnson). With the help of the "Kissing Oak" and other standard campus props, Mother gets her man, and Betty gets compensation in the form of a stripling her own age...