Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...age group will be called first to supply the 1,850 men scheduled to come up for screening, but draft authorities have predicted that such a large draft quota will involve the 22-year-old age group...
Figures released last Wednesday by Dean Bender show that the percentage of dean's list students is almost twice as high as the 19.6 percent average for the 1920's. Furthermore, while seven percent of jazz-age undergrads had their connections severed for academic reason, only a little over two percent flunked out last year...
Dean Bender also pointed out that 60 percent of men now in College are preparing to go to professional school after graduation and pay more attention to their marks, and that the average age of the undergraduate has risen since...
Composer in the Wings. The first music Victor de Sabata ever conducted was a composition of his own, at the Milan Conservatory-at the age of twelve. Six years later, La Scala produced his first opera, Il Macigno. When Toscanini brought the La Scala orchestra to the U.S. on tour in 1920-1, he played De Sabata's symphonic poem Juventus on every program. Now better known as conductor than composer, De Sabata insists with a smile that his is "a beastly profession." He swears he would rather have his two children, Elios, 17, and Eliana, 13, be "thieves...
Sound & Fury. For all her garish conduct, Tallulah is capable of great charm, dignity and kindness. During the filming of A Royal Scandal, an older actor blew his lines in one scene 85 times, but Tallulah never made the slightest show of impatience. Her genuine respect for age is linked to her reverence for her parents, whose pictures are always on her dressing-room table. Last year she spent 20 minutes getting a long-distance call through to her gardener so that she could wish him a merry Christmas. Preposterously openhanded with money and gifts, she is also generous with...