Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back garden (nothing so sensational as levitation) which were most fascinating and inexplicable. But the best of these "tricks" was one which was done before a group of us in Madras a few years ago. The particular performer was not fully of the holy man type of the person concerned in the levitation. However, he did something which was fairly a test of his capacity, for he drank a teaspoonful of undiluted nitric acid. It was not his nitric acid, but some supplied from our college laboratory. He drank first about a wineglassful of water and then poured down...
...Pratt interrupted: "Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Roosevelt, the candidate, is here in voice but not in person. Through the miracle of science his voice has been preserved. Therefore, whenever you hear him talk again during this broad cast it will be his own actual voice, taken from the air in 1932 and 1933 at the time his statements were made and brought to you tonight in this most unusual radio program...
...been the "Empire Salesman." He has led a charmed youth with the result that today at 42 he still seems from a distance of 15 feet only about 22. And His Majesty is undoubtedly most popular with millions of the British Lower Classes. Today there is probably not a person of this class who does not love King Edward, in the sense that "the Englishman is taught to love his King as a friend." Meanwhile, in Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique who are the King's only real friends. Most of these people seem "American...
...person," states the first ordinance on the subject, "shall remain for a longer time than 20 minutes upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of foot travellers...
...majority of these laws appear on inspection to be rather old. For instance, the banana skin rule was last amended in 1902; it reads, "No person shall throw or place upon any sidewalk or cross-walk any banana skin, orange peel, or slippery substance...