Word: personable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baron Passfield glance occasionally at the Peeresses' Gallery, wondered what he was thinking, how much of his nervousness might derive from a gracious lady of 71 who sat there calmly watching the ceremony. She, Mrs. Beatrice Webb, last week proved again that she is the same independent, energetic person who, even before her marriage in 1892 to Sidney Webb, was an authority on economics. She has collaborated with him since on more than 30 books and tracts. In 1923 after 30 years as active members of the Labor and Socialist movement they framed their first indictment of capital...
...bread prices for at least another year. Under the present rationing system, in existence for more than six months, inhabitants of Russia's larger cities, even those of the grain districts, are allowed but one pound of bread -in some cases only three-quarters of a pound-per person...
Eleven passengers and two pilots serenely started from London to Zurich in the Imperial Airways two-engined biplane City of Ottawa last week. They had little to fear, for Imperial Airways had carried 99,000 persons for 3,800,000 miles and except for one bad accident at the very beginning of its operations, had killed or injured not one person. While flying over the English Channel, as the City of Ottawa had done 100 times before, one of her engines went wrong. The pilot at the controls turned the plane back toward England. Three miles from Dungeness she struck...
...height of his career. It was characteristic of him to walk down a Philadelphia theatre aisle holding the injured member aloft so that all might see. Miss Wills, ace of women players, from the opposite edge of the U. S., is just the opposite sort of person...
...rich, buys up the old estate of Fontecreuse in Touraine (southern France ?the Contes Drolatiques country), he installs an elevator, removes a Gobelin tapestry which interferes with the acoustics of his Negro saxophonist, and engages a Russian Count to preside over his kitchen. The Count is Molinoff, a person of glamor. Molinoff forgets he is cook, remembers only he is count. He spends a few stolen hours every day with Anne and Françoise, young daughters of a neighboring poor-but-proud royalist family. Françoise, unlike Anne, has no bent for politics. Her energy...