Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bills of higher denomination could be used, especially two-dollar bills. If a person makes a small purchase with a five-dollar bill, he gets small change and four one-dollar bills. If he got silver change and two two-dollar bills, the paper money expense would be cut nearly in half...
...worst of it, no doubt, is the publicity involved. To the average person, this might not mean much, but to a moving-picture actress, already much in the public eye, it must be particularly distasteful. Of course, we may be thankful that the plot was discovered before any damage was done?except the publicity. But even so, there is danger that the thing will become an epidemic. That is, enterprising press agents, now that the jewel-theft scheme has pretty well worn out, may try to fake kidnapping plots and in that way get their employers' names in the paper...
...have faith I knew a man who made a rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning he had an impression of the way it would affect the person for whom it was intended not a bad thing to do, if not literally at least in imagination, as a means of putting oneself in another's place...
...congressmen returning from Europe are successful in quelling their natural tendencies, a great amount of hot air can be stored up for the snowy season, and the clouds of ignorance which hang over this darkened land of Egypt will not be thickened by congressional belchings. In fact, no worthier person than Mr. Hardy could be found to be awarded first prize of Diogenes lantern, for he has not only contributed signally to his country's welfare, but he has set an example that a few congressmen may try to equal but which none can excell...
...cards, conversed in doorways, gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs as: HE MAY BE A CLEPTOMANIAC HE MAY BE AN ADULTERER HE MAY BE A POISONER...