Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of a wealthy chemical trust family, Poulenc is one of few French composers who "escaped" the Paris Conservatoire: at entrance age (18), he was in the French army in World War I. He emerged from World War II France's most popular composer, partly because there was no political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished...
Without Impediment. "Anyone who writes Latin poetry at the age of twelve is bound to end up doing something like translating the Bible," said a Knox acquaintance recently. From his Eton days, Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, now 60, has been noted for his witty, agile mind. The sixth child of the Anglican Bishop of Manchester (both his grandfathers were also Protestant divines), he grew up in what his autobiography calls "that form of Protestant piety which the modern world half regrets, half derides as 'old-fashioned...
...favor of feeding 'em plenty." A 15-lb. roast on Sunday is the usual thing, and there are 35-lb. turkeys at Thanksgiving. The Conway home is equipped with restaurant-size utensils, and when the kids were younger, the staggering meals were staggered: pre-school-age kids ate dinner in the kitchen at 6; elementary-school-agers in the breakfast room at 6:30, and the big kids with dad and mother in the dining room at 7 (Mrs. Conway died last August...
...route to Elkton, Md., where the two youths felt the age limit would be sufficiently low to allow their marriage with Joanne Forrester, 13, and her sister Kathleen, 15, they were apprehended by local authorities in Philadelphia and held for the parents' arrival...
...What the Hill is Condon off around Hair?" asked the Sage of the Age, observing his Green assistant...