Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisiana Bundles. "You have no right whatever to stop a person on the street and ask him what he has in a bundle, even though the contents of that bundle take the shape of a bottle. It might be a bottle of something other than liquor," said Judge Louis H. Burns of the U. S. District Court in New Orleans, to the Prohibition agent who arrested one John Masera. When Mr. Masera was accosted on the street by the Prohibition agent, he had quickly smashed his bottle of liquor on the pavement. Judge Burns dropped the charges against Mr. Masero...
...hotel in Charlottes ville, Va. Three miles away, across a valley, stood Monticello, old home of Thomas Jefferson. The electricians were adjusting a search light to play on Monticello, a searchlight so huge that were Mon ticello a mile nearer, the dazzling light would artificially "sunburn" a person standing on the old colonial porch at midwinter midnight. The special function for which the light was being got ready was a spectacle in honor of the Institute of Public Affairs which opened last week at the University of Virginia (see p. 24). Thereafter the searchlight, hugest in the world, would...
Similarly in his essays, Alfred Noyes, commentator, says nicely what he has to say but what he has to say has almost all been said. For this reason he is a most serviceable person. He wraps up the commonplace with loving care and presents it with an expression combining sturdy faith and "lest we forget" to people who only get confused when they read "clever" writers. How truly useful this ingenuousness is can be estimated almost mathematically. The "American Impressions" in his new book* were written for the London Times. To U. S. readers it will seem that Mr. Noyes...
...masses who must in the end attain their destiny and choose what nations to call "friend." While King Fuad was in residence with Italian royalty, he and his entire suite were required to enact a quaint mummery so that he might call at the Vatican. Etiquette forbids that any person shall pass directly between a residence of the King of Italy and the residence of the Pope. Therefore King Fuad was obliged to "reside" for a few minutes both going and coming at the Excelsior Hotel...
...police placards to crooks. Fresh reason for the statement was announced by John E. Seebold of Rochester, N. Y. Aided by General Electric Co. experts, Mr. Seebold had perfected a detective camera for installation in rooms likely to attract burglars. As soon as the burglar (or any moving person or object) passes between a light sensitive fixture at one end of the room and a light at the other, the camera quietly takes any number of photographs (up to 160) of all that is occurring in front of it. Even tampering with the light by which the camera "sees...