Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been so long in the enjoyment of the privileges of an enlightened Government," he continues, "that I sometimes fear we have forgotten at what cost they were obtained. The policy of exclusion of undesirable aliens will be enforced without regard to the station of life of the person affected, prince or peasant, information on which they are excluded is confidential and will not be made public...
...call my great countryman, the ace of all aces, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, a "sportsman"? [Nov. 30 issue P. 14.] That English term of praise befits him ill. He was a true German. In his person he epitomized unflinching might. He was no weak "sportsman. You English and American only call him one in order that as the "nations of sportsmen" you may seem to imply that he was one of you and share his glory...
...Latin American friends (who dislike seeing the term "American" appropriated by the United States), TIME employs a "checker" whose special function it is to cross out "American" wherever it is improperly used and to insert "U.S." In editing "early American furnishings" into "early U. S. furnishings," this person permitted his zeal to overbalance his good sense...
...FIRST WORLD FLIGHT-Lowell Thomas-Houghton, Mifflin ($5). The story of the first circumnavigation of the world by air, the first- person narratives of the participants being set down by an official appointed by the War Department...
Beware of Widows. Madge Kennedy has once more demonstrated her right to be known as a superlatively attractive person. Alexander Woollcott went so far in his commentary on the comedy as to call her the most charming person in Manhattan. As such she makes this play worthwhile. Shorn of her amazing personality it would be a slender, an insufficient venture...