Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems to me that a paper so intimate as yours, speaking to its guests in general society, should restrain itself from giving offense to any one present. It is no answer to say; "Let the injured person retire." You do not profess to be an organ of any particular faith or creed and in truth you do not wish any of your subscribers to retire. . . . HOMER MOONEY...
...call The Infallible, made what must have looked to the football world like a mistake. He doped Boston College to be beaten. Imagine! And now for the first time he, or rather I, because I'll get all mixed up if I try to go on in the third person, now I will tell you how it happened. In a word, "Cherchez la femme." Yes, Joe Forecast, Flint-Hearted Joe as they used to call me in the old days, fell before a woman's wiles. I need not tell my readers how the Forecast heart beat quicker...
...dubbed "Silent Cal" by those who do not know him, is at times talkative when he is with a friend who he knows will not put a political twist on everything he says. Bruce Barton, who agrees with Mr. Coolidge on religion and many another fundamental, was exactly the person to reveal the President to his people. He was permitted to publish, five days later, through the Associated Press, a report of the interview in which the President said...
...year, of "Franciscanism." There was an imposing torchlight procession at Assisi and many a high mass in the ravaged old Church of the Aracoeli. The King dedicated a new road to the stony hole where Francis lived for a while at La Verna, and the Fascist Government -in the person of the Minister of Public Instruction, Signor Fedele -marched through the streets of Assisi. Donna Tittoni, wife of the president of the Senate, heads a committee to design simple fashions for women. Imported luxuries are forbidden. Passports will be refused, during the Franciscan year, for any travel for pleasure outside...
KYRA KYRALINA-Panait Istrati -Knopf ($2.50). Five years ago, hospital attendants in Nice found upon the person of a wretch who had cut his throat unsuccessfully, a letter addressed to Author Romain Rolland, the French pacifist-humanist. The patient lived and, encouraged by M. Rolland, wrote many stories, of which this book contains the first three to be published in English...