Agee, James

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A twentieth-century American writer and critic, best known for his classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with photos by Walker Evans, an account of sharecroppers (see sharecropping) in Alabama during the 1930s. He was posthumously awarded a 1958 Pulitzer Prize for A Death in the Family, his only novel.

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But yes, I pictured a James Bond-type just sauntering over to her.
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True, this may not be what James Madison had in mind when he was writing the Bill of Rights.
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Granted, James is in an office in the Pentagon, and not on the front lines.
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A sad-faced orange Star of David flashed across the iPhone screen as we swiped left on “James” (not his real name).
My Week on Jewish Tinder|Emily Shire|January 5, 2015|DAILY BEAST

This leads him to some James Frey-style mythmaking of his own.
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James I. sent forth his famous "Counterblast" and in the strongest manner condemned its use.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
James Pulteney, a wealthy English baron, died; whose income was $250,000 per annum.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
But Mr. Thompson (afterwards Sir James), the beau, was in the chair, and thought there had been talking enough.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
James Otis recovered from a temporary fit of insanity only to grow strangely suspicious of Samuel Adams.
The Eve of the Revolution|Carl Becker
There, too, was James Duane, with never so great need of his "surveying eye" to enable him to size up the situation.
The Eve of the Revolution|Carl Becker

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