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Word: personably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Libel suits involving public officials and prominent persons are almost certain to create a stir. But there is more than mere slander in the Narragansett fracas. The fight between two unscrupulous persons, one, a hot-headed politician, and the other, a person who, many believe, is trying to buy his way into politics, is bound to be no ordinary fray. Each man has demanded the removal of the other, with aspersions on character and integrity freely cast. Each man has defied the other, and each has taken up the other's dare. The courts have reversed the decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANARCHY IN THE PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

Then the president of the college concerned appears--another stoutishly depicted person who says what Conant is thought to have said at the time--you have to take the Oath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATHER OATH QUESTION BROUGHT UP IN CONTEST | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...limericks will not be printed about the same person until considerable time has clasped, and not even then unless it is a whopper, it is a good idea to develop a loss outstanding character rather then do a mediocre job on one of the grand patoots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Limerick Contest Will Give Chance At Dollar a Week to Playful Artists | 10/19/1937 | See Source »

...highly specific representation of the present administration, with ridicule hurled at everybody in it. Jim Farley, Henry Morgenthau, and Madame Secretary Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when an entirely different person walks about more or less in his likeness, although the making him out as a happy-go-lucky experimenter does strike close to home. Horse-laughs evoked at the expense of Cordell Hull and Chief Justice Hughes, the one docked out as an idiotic jester and the other...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Monday, October 18 is the last day upon which courses may be changed (dropped or added), without liability of the course fee. Petitions must be filed in person at Room C, University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST DAY FOR COURSE CHANGES | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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