Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only say to the Editors of TIME that it is self evident to any person of refinement or culture that any young man should behave himself, and that if a young man highly placed misbehaves himself some public protest should accompany the public notoriety which his indiscretions have received due to his prominence. That is why I protested, and I know that many of your readers approved my protest deep in their hearts...
...children of families connected with the University, if accompanied by an older person, have been especially invited to attend the service on Tuesday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock...
Surely the parents would entertain no good opinion of such a person. Yet they should actually be grateful to him. Tickling is splendid for a baby, and a noise when it is going to sleep will promote its future. It was so stated last week by Sir Harry E. Bruce-Porter, London specialist in children's diseases. He explained that tickling makes babies laugh and thus develops their lungs; that loud sounds when they are composing themselves for slumber prepare them for "the rough and tumble of later life...
...riches of the find are significant not only because they are rich but actually because they are surprisingly unique. Never before has a royal diadem of Egypt been unearthed. And even the minor trappings of the royal person have hitherto been scarcely above ground. The reason is that previously discovered mummies have been stripped by thieves before the savants got at them. Every yield of ancient splendor laughs ironically at Egypt's squalorous fellaheen of today...
...John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment or a $10,000 to $100,000 fine or both. Onlookers detected not flask, nor glass, nor scent of liquor at the banquet...