Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what would be the use of toreadors if bulls could no longer be fought ? Yet, last week, the Iberian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came into being for the express purpose of warring on bullfighting. Paradox upon paradox, the Society was headed by no less a person than H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias, the Heir-Apparent, and T.R.H. The Infantas Beatrix and Maria Cristina...
...centuries, the Royal Family was relegated to complete seclusion by the powerful shoguns. Never did an Emperor appear outside the four walls of his palace and it was a crime to look upon him, so sacred was his person. With the Emperor Meiji, all that was changed and, for the first time in probably a thousand years, an Emperor spoke face to face with his subjects. Today, matters have progressed still farther and the Prince Regent, Hirohito, has gone far to democratize the Royal Family...
...Story. At 24, Lou Witt was without a taproot. Having drifted from New Orleans to Texas to Paris to Biarritz, Vienna, Palermo, Rome, London, she was as native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely...
...industrial ills ; and if Mr. Nash is himself present, as he is very apt to be, he is listened to as if he were a modern Moses come to deliver new commandments to a strifetorn world. Yet, as a matter of fact, I have yet to find a person whose enthusiasm for Mr. Nash and his clothing shop is based upon a genuine scientific investigation of actual conditions in his shop. Churchmen like him largely because he has a genius for quoting Biblical phrases...
...Astronomy?notably the completion of The Henry Draper Catalog of Stellar Spectra, covering 225,300 stars?Oxford created Miss Annie Jump Cannon, a Wellesley graduate and worker at the Harvard Observatory, an honorary Doctor of Science. Miss Cannon, aged 61. journeyed to Oxford to receive her kudos in person...