Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blair of Manhattan is a person who wrote a letter, from which the following is extracted, to Mrs. Augusta E. Stetson...
...cases of homicide and the city of St. Louis, unaided, had more; Phila delphia has more murders than the whole of Canada, etc., etc. One life insurance company found that for every 146 murders in this country 69 indictments are found, 37 convictions are obtained and only 1 person executed. Mr. Child advanced similar statistics for burglaries, robberies, holdups...
...That it is impossible for a living person to overcome the force of gravity and ascend beyond the limit of vision, whereas the Bible teaches that Elijah went up alive to Heaven, Christ rose from the dead and did the same and the dead shall rise and go to Heaven on Judgment...
...nephew, the Viscount Scarsdale, is enjoined to preserve the estate and tradition of Kedleston. In words which recalled the famous Oxonian jibe: "I am George Nathaniel Curzon, a really most superior person," he urges his nephew and successor, the present Viscount Scarsdale, to preserve the estate of Kedleston and the traditions of the family...
This favorable impression was quickly dissipated when news came from Manchuria that Morgan Palmer, U. S. citizen from New York State, had been killed while helping the inhabitants of a village near his ranch to beat off a horde of brigands. At the same time the brigands seized the person of Dr. H. J. Howard, eye specialist of the Rockefeller Hospital in Peking, who was visiting Mr. Palmer at his ranch, dragged him to their mountain lair, since when nothing has been heard of him. Mr. Palmer's mother, Dr. Howard's son, one Harold Baldwin (formerly...