Word: personable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gallery, he admitted that he had "committed some offense" by his slur upon their ethics and added: "Ethically the action of the newspaper man is not comparable in its meanness with that of the Senator himself who violates the rules and then hides behind the newspaper man. . . . The person to punish is the Senator who is guilty and I hope the Senate will not get it into its mind that we are starting out to persecute any newspaper...
...never had the childhood form, catch it from others when they grow up. Three good means of diagnosis for early tuberculosis exist: X-rays; tuberculin tests; precipitation of a suspect's blood serum by fatty phosphatide fractions of the tuberculosis germ.* Mild doses of infection immunize a person. Massive doses present great future dangers. Attempts to vaccinate babies with living cultures of the germs are likely to prove harmful, because it has been impossible to free such vaccines from virulent, deadly germs...
...spite of the perennial warnings of economists of the dangers of an unrestricted growth of population, particularly among the lower classes these laws probably reflect the conventional point of view of the average person. Although organized opposition to the birth-control movement is largely confined to one or two powerful groups, general ignorance or apathy are even more potent in preventing any attempts to establish free discussion of the topic...
London society was feverishly trying to guess last week who the author of King George's latest biography might be. The book, "By a Person in Close Touch with the Royal Family," was begun at the height of the King's illness in the ghoulish expectation of being the first posthumous biography. With the King's recovery, proof sheets of the volume were forwarded to Buckingham Palace for approval last week. Officials, horrified at the revelation of personal details in the King's private life, not only forbade its publication but sent special King...
...famed dancer's good husband, a flaming tabloid's good newsgatherer, can both be combined in one person. But that person cannot be a good gardener too. At least so learned David Vivian Bath last week. So learned also New York's Daily Mirror. This is how they found...