Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ROBERT S. PERSON Los Angeles, Calif...
...opinion that when a person subscribes and reads a magazine for several years, he has confidence in that periodical...
Last week jubilant British subjects were looking anxiously at their King's smooth chin. Word had gone round that His Majesty's Government in the person of Squire Baldwin had advised the King-Emperor to grow a beard...
...shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will was found, Lady Houston's former associates were left to issue the Saturday Review as they saw fit and as best they could...
...refuge from reality she took to books. Her heterodox hair and her heterogeneous reading made her "a rather embittered little philosopher" at 16. But Romance soon reared its tousled head again, in the person of an Eton boy on vacation, with whom Elinor ate candy and discussed the classics. On a visit to Paris, a little later, she was beset by a passionate Frenchman, who took her to the zoo, thrilled her to the marrow by whispering "Belle Tigresse!" (beautiful tigress) in her ear. From that adventure Elinor dates her hunger for tiger skins, of which she afterwards had seven...