Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestion by a person living in Boston of plays most worth seeing in New York must necessarily be personal and limited--personal since the relative value of a few plays in about 70 can be nothing else then that, and limited because a resident of Boston can not possibly see all the plays which come and go at an unheard of rate...
...Klux Mayor W. H. N. Stevens, Newark, Ohio (population 30,000) suffered a visitation in his office last week. "How are you, Bailiff?" he queried. Bailiff Robert Darnes arrested His Honor, removed a large revolver from his person, lodged him in Licking County Jail, charged with soliciting bribes. Half hour later, His Honor's stenographer, Miss Margaret Flowers, was also arrested, for active association in the Mayor's alleged requests of traveling salesmen for $100 "contributions...
Life Insurance. Presidents of U.S. life insurance companies met at Manhattan last week and reported that every other person in this country now carries life insurance, that these 58,000,000 people own 108,000,000 policies, that if every policy were paid their total value would be one-third more than all the money which the U. S. population earns in a year. As an actuarial matter the presidents deplored the 1,432,000 U.S. deaths they expect this year. Last year 1,357,000 people died...
Novelists Margaret Deland and Mary Austin pleaded, Mrs. Deland in person, for further study of life after death. She told how she had been converted to spiritualism by the ouija board and the inexplicable "residue" left in mediumistic trances after all cheating had been subtracted. Mrs. Austin's faith resulted from her studies of primitive American Indian customs and the behavior of animals at the approach of death...
...portraiture has icy precision. Epigrams rattle like hail. Southern stuffiness?the scene is Queen-borough, Va.?is snowed under by pretty drifts of poetic irony. It is engaging reading?but the wrong person wrote the book, overwrote it, if these generation-comparisons are to be taken seriously. Miss Glasgow is too merciless to make her Judge bearable; too doctrinaire to know what she means by Annabel. The best character is Gamaliel's twin sister, Edmonia, who lost her virtue young, married four times and loves to tell about...