Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those of the later Caesars, who had said-his thin voice rising to a shriek in a drunken and lascivious party-"I am the counterpart of Napoleon, the master mind of all the world. Drink her down." He was dealing with a man who had embodied in his person most of the political power of Indiana, and who was then serving a life sentence in Michigan City Prison for the rape and murder of a girl. He was dealing with D. C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana...
...Lick, Ind., against Novelist Edna Ferber for the implication in her book Show Boat that he was a gambler, TIME stated erroneously that Miss Ferber was sued in 1922 by her "onetime Chicago Landlady" for allegedly libelous character drawing in the novel So Big (TIME, Sept. 13). The injured person was a onetime friend and hostess of Miss Ferber's; the suit was never brought, merely talked about, the lady fancying she saw herself in the married woman with whom the young hero fell in love...
...Earl, of whom it has been said that he does not know a vacuum tube from a tuning condenser, once served during three years (1922-25) as Captain of His Majesty's Gentlemen-at-Arms, the theoretical guardians of the Sovereign's person. As the onetime (1922-24, and 1925) Conservative whip in the House of Lords and present Under Secretary for Dominion Affairs he is thought to have deserved well of his party the ?5,000 ($25,000) per annum sinecure of Britain's broadcasting tsar...
...species Babbitii of Homo Americanus Mukerji's latest offering will seem incomprehensible tosh about an incomprehensible person, one Rama Krishna, whom his followers call an Incarnation of God, as was also Buddha, Mohammed, and Christ...
...this Rama Krishna was a strangely unromantic sort of person. He did not, as did Buddha, suddenly change his course of life from that of a prince to that of a begging friar. He did not lead armies, as did Mohammed. He did not confute wise men, nor die an eternal death upon the Cross, as did Christ. Instead he spent nearly his whole life tending the ritual of the Goddess Kali at her temple on the Ganges. Strangest thing of all for a Messiah, he deliberately avoided founding a cult. Instead he urged all who came...