Word: personably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a letter to the London Times, arguing: "If more plain language were used, there would be less bad legislation. It shocks no one to [have the Government census taker] say 'Other issue and marriage condition of father and mother where the father of the child is a person other than present or a former spouse?' But what this means in plain language is: 1) 'Have you had any other illegitimate children?' 2) 'Are you married-that is, have you committed adultery?' 3) 'Has the father committed adultery...
...female Washington. First Lady is an almost exact celluloid reproduction of the play by Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman on which it is based. Its quips are badinage rather than satire, and direct their wit at the immemorial field of petticoat intrigue rather than at any particular person...
Otto Schniebs is a solid little Bavarian, who has probably done more for the promotion of skiing in the U. S. than any other person. Until last year he was ski coach at Dartmouth College, where he turned out six championship teams in six years. His Dartmouth pupils, all very fond of him, constantly baited him just to hear him reply in his terrific guttural accent. A few years ago a pupil asked him what to do if, on a downhill run, he should suddenly rush upon a spot studded with rocks and trees. Replied astute Otto Schniebs...
...books in immediate circulation. He should not be allowed to become a carbon copy of the Phillips Brooks House student advisor; his duties will not be psychological or spiritual, although at times he may have to use these methods. But he should be essentially a go-between--the person who opens up the stacks to undergraduates who have a definite need, who has time to explain the situation because that is his only duty, who could bring Widener even further down out of the clouds of graduate and professorial research into the lowest realm of ordinary students...
...will not only have this past experience as recommendation, but will have made up his mind more definitely as to what sort of employment interests him the most. The man who gives the impression of knowing his own mind is apt to make the best impression on the person who interviews him, and the importance of this first impression can not be over estimated...