Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to an unusually well-informed person who is persona grata at the Quirinal, who has the Pope's ear and who has sources of information denied even to Premier Mussolini-according to this great unnamed mystery man whose ways are more incomprehensible than those of the cats in Trajan's Forum, the Queen makes cheese for the King...
...BISBEE'S PRINCESS-Julian Street - Doubleday Page ($2.00). When you know that Booth Tarkington is one of his major literary heroes, you know Author Street for a kindly, unpretentious person. When you know that he devotes months to the perfection of a type of story that most Saturday Evening Post writers concoct in a fortnight, you add conscience to his qualities. It is thus that you find him, and have pleasure in his work-a shrewd, painstaking etcher of his fellows, who dilutes the acid of irony with the milk of human kindness...
FAME - Micheline Keating - Putnam ($2.00). A tangle of love, libertines and the pursuit of happiness among stage folk and artists, including an CEdipus twist where the high-strung heroine and her father, not knowing their relationship, nearly wed, is pretty strong stuff for a person of 18 to attempt in a first novel. Yet, for all her stock phrases, young Miss Keating has more than a smattering of stage lore, and accomplishes her broad effect with the naive directness of one to whom the ancient tatters of passion are shining raiment bright...
...would allow only two persons in each plane on extended flights, at least one person out of the four traveling in a pair of planes being a skilled mechanic...
Regardless of whether or not Maine is miserly, many persons were a bit taken aback that the emphasis should have been placed just where it was. President Clarence Cook Little of Maine, aged 37, had been told that, if the Maine trustees accepted his resignation, he might succeed no less a person than the late Marion LeRoy Burton, as President of the University of Michigan. A man of less lively principles might have glossed over any criticisms he entertained for his old, smaller position, thoughtless of anything but his great advancement...