Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eleventh hour, another candidate appeared in the person of Lord Cave, the Lord High Chancellor of the Realm. Still, this did not appear to diminish Lord Oxford's chances of election. By comparison he dwarfed Lord Cave intellectually and from the point of view of achievement. But Oxford is traditionally the home of lost causes and the treasury of Conservative thought. It was, therefore, not surprising that Lord Cave, a Conservative, was preferred as Chancellor to Lord Oxford, a Liberal, by 987 votes...
Said President Knubel: "It is true that an unordained person may fill a pulpit...
...Significance. War being an irrational thing, its aftermath verges on insanity. An analytical person, particularly a racial polyglot, can cope with the welter of causes and patriotisms only by adopting a sportive fatalism. Author Gerhardi's minor characters develop this sociological thesis on a very high plane of comedy. The major characters, who dwell on the border line of high tragedy, give a more intimate demonstration of the same philosophy...
Said Dr. George E. Vincent, President of the Rockefeller Foundation, in a prolog to the annual report of the Foundation, shortly to be issued: "The general practitioner of ability, character and personality is a fundamentally valuable person . . . He cheers, encourages, warns, commands . . . not only a physician, but a friend . . . disappearance would be a serious loss...
...have, at various times before, felt moved to write you, but usually in protest to some of the letters from readers, rather than to the paper. I did, once, protest against an unjust portrayal of the President of this country evidently written by a person on the staff who had never "been here and much less known Mr. Leguia...