Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boutet de Monvel, the proud and gentle product of an age that now seems almost as remote as Charlemagne's, died in 1913, just before history presented some of his readers with the day he had in mind. "He took a long time dressing," one of his sons remembers, "and was always elegant, with a bow tie, spats, silk hat, a flower in his lapel, and always a cane...
...Legislature to erase the blot by closing out the colony at Kalaupapa. There are now only 248 patients there; at the peak, in 1890, there were 1,100. Compulsory segregation of leprosy patients at Kalaupapa is, said Governor Stainback, "an expensive and useless cruelty ... a survival of a dark age of ignorance and unreasonable fear," since the disease is not highly infectious. Stainback did not say what would happen to the patients if the colony is abolished. Best guess was that they would be sent to the Kalihi receiving station on the island of Oahu, held until doctors found...
...most, America sounded un-Blochian: a muddied mixture of Indian tom-toms, Pop! Goes the Weasel, anvils (the industrial age), automobile horns and telephone bells, with his main theme bobbing up here & there. When the grand finale finally came, the audience rose to its feet and roared out the anthem-2,300 voices plus a full orchestra and a booming pipe organ...
...age of eleven, Nebraska-born Art Stoddard went to Texas with his father, a grading contractor who was helping to build the Rock Island Line. Art got a job as water boy at 25? a day. He worked on railroads on & off while finishing school, joined the U.P. as a shop helper. After a World War I stint as a Navy radio operator, he worked up through U.P.'s ranks as a telegrapher, train dispatcher, trainmaster, assistant superintendent...
Mother Is a Freshman (20th Century-Fox) is a featherbrained variation on one of Hollywood's most cherished myths: that U.S. Moms up to the age of 40 should be able, at the drop of a mink stole, to look and act like their teen-age daughters. The plot, as silly as a schoolgirl's endorsement of a beauty soap, is just about as inventive...