Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oriental royalty in the person of Prince Yasuhito Chichibuno-miya, second son of the Mikado, deigned to dine last week with able Californian hostess Mrs. Newton Booth Knox at London. Present also was able Californian tennis player Helen Wills...
...Reed of Missouri. Set to nose out the labyrinthine political finances of the Pennsylvania primaries (TIME May 31 et seq. THE CONGRESS,) he tested all winds eagerly for a whiff of larger game. Last fortnight his vigilance was rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving, Senator Reed followed this fresh...
...Ella George, of Beaver Falls, Pa., president of the Pennsylvania W. C. T. U., an ingenuous, grandmotherly person with a quick smile and cheerful voice, readily took the stand and answered the Senator's questions. "Oh, yes," she said brightly, "the ladies of the W. C. T. U. had stumped for Governor Pinchot willingly at $5 per day, paid by him. They had written the voters letters about his splendid Dry record. They had drummed up money at church meetings and by speeches...
...executed several rather unusual artistic gymnastics. In 1921 a group of gentry from Kansas City, opulent and patriotic, "backed" the local art museum in an offer to pay $500,000 for a DaVinci, "La Belle Ferroniere." Naturally a "La Belle Ferroniere" was soon forthcoming and the person who conjured it was not Sir Joseph Duveen, although he likes to be a major party in all big deals where the old masters and $500,000 are involved. The sale was about to be consummated, certificates of authenticity, vouchers, expert testimonies and all attached to the work, when Sir Joseph gave...
...Queen of England waited beside Court No. 1. Her shapely hands were folded in her lap, her pale eyes looked politely down at the green square of turf whereon the person she awaited would shortly appear. "Shortly," officials assured her, bending anxiously over the back of the Royal Box; "á l´instant," said agitated Jean Borotra, hurrying up to explain. The Queen waited, the crowd waited, the green square of turf waited -but Suzanne Lenglen did not come...