Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fractional paper currency in denominations less than one dollar, which the government was then issuing, which were commonly called "shin-plasters." It still serves a useful purpose in preventing the flooding of the country with quasi currency issued by individuals or corporations, but it has no application to a person who draws an ordinary check on his bank account for a sum of less than one dollar...
...Every person guilty of murder in the first degree shall suffer death.-U. S. Criminal Code, Sect...
People who like to read palms (or have theirs read), who read characters from handwriting and buy books on personality, were glad to hear last week of a new technique of character analysis. Prof. William H. Blake, instructor in educational dramatics at Columbia University, declared: "A person's salient characteristics can be distinguished from the way he holds himself, from the way he distributes his weight, and the way he uses his arms and legs...
...wading in at Lausanne early one morning last week. She stroked away westward. All that day she swam, all that night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...
...instead of the 35,000 estimated earlier. Diminishing receipts have impelled several theatres to re-engage their orchestras. The Federation of Musicians is fighting its battle by a propaganda campaign to persuade the public that "canned" orchestras are never as clear, never as rich as orchestras "in person," that for Music's sweet sake no mechanical device should be permitted to intervene between ear and instrument...