Word: personable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are "characters" and clowns aplenty abroad on the Cambridge scene who are notorious as such and whose careers have been nothing but slightly sublimated vaudeville shows. These Mr. Cromarty may well attack with a barrage of personalities since they offer no other qualities for consideration, but the article at hand does not deal with such a person and is, as a result, altogether deplorable. The author evidently realized his lapse from propriety both academic and journalistic when he signed himself discreetly with a nom de plume. Such anonymity must be deserved...
...Gann was furious. So was her brother, now no longer a simple baby-kissing Kansas Senator, but a Person of Importance who must preserve the dignity and respect of his office. Mrs. Gann's brother solemnly gave out a press statement which brought the social war against Mrs. Gann into the open, saying...
...course some well-meaning person smuggled a single bunch of violets onto the bier, last week, and they were not disturbed. But there was no music in the Embassy. And there were only, two women-Mme. Salambier, long the Ambassador's social secretary, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Parmely Herrick. The other 400 persons who jammed to suffocation the largest room in the Embassy were all men, clad in formal mourning...
...Austria's progress is blocked," he said, "by a political tension, for much of which the present Government is held responsible, although unjustly. Long-continued agitations and accumulated hatred, which so far as concerns my person would be bearable, have also without reason been cast on my priestly office and my Church...
...Brothers Behn are never interviewed, rarely photographed. Nothing less than a royal occasion persuaded Brother Sosthenes, in 1924, to pose with the nobles, the diplomats and churchmen of Spain. The occasion was, of course, the opening of the new Spanish telephone system, and royalty was present in the person of His Most Catholic Majesty, King Alphonso XIII...