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Word: personably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... I first met Dr. Cook when he came back from the Pole, and I have known and associated with him very intimately ever since then. I am not exaggerating when I say I know him better than any other person alive. In 1915 we were on an eight-months' trip to climb Mt. Everest. Permission being refused by the British, we went to the jungles of Borneo to do anthropological work on the so-called wild man of Borneo. During these eight months, we were together practically every minute of the time-night and day. Our principal topic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Last week, when Superior Judge Joseph Jerome Trabucco saw no reason for a fourth trial and set him free, Lamson lost his calm, stumbled weeping from the courtroom to see his 5-year-old daughter, Allene Genevieve. Bashful at first in the presence of a person she scarcely knew, Allene soon dropped her shyness, clasped her father in her arms, cried: "Oh, Daddy, where are you going to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Three Trials & Out | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Japan had a new Foreign Minister last week in the person of grinning, toothy Hachiro Arita. A career diplomat with a long record of service in Brussels, Vienna, Washington and Peiping, he was always considered a liberal, anxious to see the army curbed until he was sent to China in February. Amiable Ambassador Arita arrived at Nanking on a gunboat with decks cleared for action, has been hand-in-glove with the militarists ever since. Returning from paying his respects to his Emperor last week, the new Foreign Minister announced with a wave of his gleaming silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Feeling of Constriction | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Tickets are on sale every day at Amee's just off Harvard Square and are five dollars per person. This ticket includes all the entertainment and supper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huge Entertainment Program for First Modern Arts Ball | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

...stayed on to help the company over its financial crisis. To many a Bori admirer it seemed incredible that she could be close to 50. Her voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm. The patrician quality which has distinguished all her operatic heroines is Bori's own. She was born a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Spain it was considered a disgrace for an aristocrat to adopt a stage career. Bori changed her name, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Milestone | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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