Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coast Guard Commandant has been in close touch with the actual conditions also the Atlantic seaboard. He is personally in charge of the extensive blockades now being maintained off Boston, New York, and other Atlantic ports. He has witnessed in person gun duals between his men and the blockade runners...
...with the desire to fill out these billowing royal gauds, and do the king act in the grand manner of broad-shouldered Coeur de Lion or paunchy Henry VIII, let him read "Physical Culture" and reflect. His royal gaze will doubtless linger long over the sketch of a spindly person at the sea-shore with the distressing legend underneath: "Are You Ashamed to Appear in a Bathing Suit...
...Voted, That the President be requested to take measures for the suppression of the practice of annoying the Freshmen, which is represented to have grown into an intolerable abuse, and to inform the Sophomore Class that any person detected in such practice will be summarily dismissed from College...
...only natural that Charles E. Piez, President of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, recently selected Mr. Borah as a fitting person to whom a plea might be made for debt-leniency to France. Last week Mr. Borah replied to Mr. Piez, presenting with his usual eloquence, the standpoint of the 100-cents-on-the-dollar debt collectors...
...calmly. After looking in vain all over the front page, the royal clipping bureau has to content itself with a brief notice culled from among the news of debutante dances and stock reports. Unacquainted with modern psychology, this hopelessly old-fashioned Pharaoh bungled his entrance. His fame preceded his person and died so long ago that it is now even more ancient than himself. It is too bad they did not have expert publicity agents in old Egypt...