Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is needed at the moment is a new sense of balance and proportion. To represent these two important phases of college life in an unreal antagonism was the work of the thoughtless person who mailed the cards and has successfully hidden behind his anonymity...
...together with the competitor's real name, be enclosed in a sealed envelope. All manuscripts must be in the hands of the chairman of the committee before April 15, 1926. They should either be sent to the chairman, Arthur Foote, at 158 Ridge Avenue, Newton Centre, or handed in person to him at the New England Conservatory of Music...
...Count Volpi's name is cognate with the Italian word "volpe", which means fox, cunning person, foxy person...
...Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, for refusing to shake hands with Dictator Benito, at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26): "Vandervelde is a hooligan in diplomacy ... a Social Democrat who fouts the established canons of diplomatic courtesy, which are scrupulously observed by even the Russian Bolsheviki. . . . Fortunately Emile Vandervelde is an insignificant person. . . . [But] the Locarno episode will not be forgotten...
...commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant, I am willing to be as reactionary as the Czar of Russia on Monday, or as radical as Leon Trotzky on Tuesday. ... I feel the only person worth bothering about is a Realist. [Conservatism, liberalism and radicalism are] three air-tight and often thought-tight compartments. . . . We park ourselves behind these barricades and begin to approach things in terms of emotion...