Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unique is South Carolina's method of campaigning for a primary election. In 1890 Benjamin Ryan ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, out for Governor, charged that only a man of wealth could reach the people through the Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers...
...great rooms in the Bank of France could not hold them and Bank officials last week seriously considered hiring an open-air stadium for the Bank meeting. Last week the Bank announced that stockholders must give three weeks' notice of their intention to vote, must vote in person and must present complete credentials at the stadium entrance...
...this time President Azafia was perhaps personally less radical than President Roosevelt. After long talks with him, cigar-chewing U. S. Ambassador Claude Bowers called Azafia the greatest living Spaniard, compared his ideals with those moderate motives which inspired George Washington and the American Colonists to shake off English Kingship. In Spain the Right knew what to think when Republican Azafia proved unable to suppress political violence and murder even in the streets of Madrid, made the philosophical assertion: "Violence is deeply enshrined in the Spanish people. The time has not yet come for Spaniards to stop shooting one another...
Pseudo-hermaphrodites are much more frequent than true ones. In them the glands are of a sex opposite from the person's general character and configuration. The genitalia may be a confusion of imperfect male & female parts. These defects may sometimes be remedied by surgeons to bring the pseudohermaphrodite into line with its glandular sex. In no case on record, though, has the patient subsequently succeeded in producing a child. In glandular males, undescended testicles are brought from the abdomen into the scrotum. If a phallus exists, bound down by adhesions or imbedded in flesh, delicate plastic work...
...sometimes happens in the case of a person brought up as a girl who turns out to be equipped with testes, that the physician deems it best for psychological reasons that she continue life as a female despite her male glands. A case history reported by Dr. Emil Novak, Johns Hopkins gynecologist: A college girl of 19, considered normal in childhood, had grown tall (6 ft. i in.), angular, flat-chested, hairy, deep-voiced. Examination revealed no womb, a rudimentary vagina, an overdeveloped clitoris, male gonads. Dr. Novak saw at once that it was impossible to adapt the clitoris...