Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would see him as a violent newspaper man sitting at his typewriter, spinning out stories to catch the popular mind and fill his own pocketbook. Long before one meets him, one is sure that he is nothing of the sort. Reading his novels is enough to convince any thinking person of his sincerity. Then, too, how could a man born in Rome, N.Y., who has been both landscape-gardener and preacher, be totally lacking in sincerity? No, Mr. Wright is sincere, and there is no question in my mind that his books have done a lot of good...
Partial plans for the Freshman smoker of May 5 at the Union were announced yesterday. Entertainment will be supplied by Bert Lowe's seven-piece orchestra, conducted in person, and by a double quartet known as the Merrymount Merrymakers. The feature of the entertainment will be the performance of W. S. Wilson '27 and J. H. Wright '25, famed for their dancing in the Basty Pudding show. The list of speakers for the smoker will be announced on Monday...
Mistress Burr. There was only one person Aaron Burr ever cared for. She was his daughter, Theodosia. When she was 9, he had her study Greek and Philosophy; at 14 she entertained, in his absence, 14 gentlemen of renown at a dinner for Thayenlanegeo, Chief of the Six Nations. She curled her lip when, in 1804, the riff-raff of Manhattan sang...
There is no such absolute direction as "down" (or "up") in the universe at large. "Down" is the direction of pull of the Earth's gravity. The rotation of the Earth has no effect on the "up" or "down" direction of any person or object on the Earth's surface...
WHAT OF IT?-Ring Lardner-Scribner ($2.00). Shakespeare has often been called, doubtless with complimentary intention, "the myriad-minded." If to be myriad-minded means to have an intellect which is supremely like the intellect of the myriads, Ring Lardner is the Shakespeare of the U. S. In person, great-nosed, lean-a melancholy marabou of a man-he understands as no one else alive the U. S. buddy ballplayer, salesman, cop, yegg, bootlegger and poobah. His wit crackles like static, loud enough to disguise, but never to obscure, the grave or bitter tune that runs behind...