Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a bar was installed at the Royal Albert Hall, last week, just 61 years after its foundation, the first person to order a drink was The Very Reverend Albert Victor Baillie, Chaplain-in-Ordinary to His Majesty, and Dean of Windsor...
...malefactors were traced Mr. Getchell lauded the work of public spirited alumni who have been of invaluable aid in checking the activities of ticket scalpers. "Under some pretence," he stated, "the tickets are examined and the numbers sent in to us, wetrace the numbers and the person to whom they were issued looses the privilege of applying for further tickets. We are very thankful to anyone who sends us in such information. As time goes on tickets to the big games become increasingly valuable, and those eligible for tickets who are not going to use them should be very careful...
Already television producers have discovered that a certain type of person appears best before their machines. Specifications...
...would be the last person in the world to say this? One guess might be President Calvin Coolidge, or some other man who is given to few words and less speculation, and who professes an earnest belief in Divine Providence...
...person of Michael McDara, he draws the sudden nauseating terrors, the megalomania, the curious mystical exaltations of the assassin. McDara, having conceived the assassination-idea, three years before, arrives in Dublin a few days before the act. He enlists the support of two men and a woman. His continuous struggle against panic, and above all the conflict of conceptions of the act's significance and symbolism make the book...