Word: personable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City of New York pays its mayor $25,000 per annum-not much, considering the requirements of a sprightly person like Mayor Walker. In addition he gets a leather-lined Locomobile town car bearing the license plate Wi. Last week he ruminated more or less confidentially to a trusted group of newsmen to this effect...
Loves of Casanova (French). Cut from 17 to seven reels, colored by hand, mercilessly expurgated, these episodic reminiscences of an 18th Century confidence-man invoke a dreariness entirely foreign to the life of the central character, but occasionally relieved by witty and good-humored subtitles written in the first person. Best shot: Casanova kissing a woman's hand...
Archibald Robertson Graustein has always been a prodigious person. Son of a German-born Boston milkman, he graduated from grammar school at 11 and entered the Cambridge Latin School for Boys. As a tribute to his small size his new schoolmates promptly stuffed him into an ash can. At a slightly more advanced age he got through Harvard-in two years, with Phi Beta Kappa, the John Harvard Scholarship and, on his diploma, summa cum laude. A little after that he passed from the Harvard Law School to the prominent Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. With...
...Chemistry herself--or as Alchemy, her ill-favored sister. They must, indeed, have existed in a primitive form in the prehistoric civilizations of India, of Egypt, and of Sumeria. Chemical laboratories as an instrument of teaching and training are a relatively modern institution. Strangely enough the first person, so far as we know, to have appreciated their value for this purpose and to have advocated their use was a President of Harvard College...
...part, I have many times had to realize how much of a handicap afternoon "labs" can be if one wants to enter any athletics or use the afternoon for any particular purpose. Furthermore, a person, under the present system, can be in the middle of a difficult chemistry experiment that has required much careful preparation, only to be told at five o'clock that he must leave and within about a five minute margin...