Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Logically-minded persons thought that since the Japanese goods have already been paid for the only person about to be hurt by destroying these particular goods is the Chinaman owner. They recalled that a shrewder thrust against Japan is being made by rich Chinamen in many parts of the world who are reported to be speculating again the Japanese yen in such fashion as may cause it to become seriously depressed on international exchange...
...best essay on "Women of Dr. Johnson's Time," Anne Morrow of the senior class won two prizes at Smith College. She is the daughter of a man who was a partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., is now U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, and in whose person both business and politics are flattered since he is constantly spoken of as prospective president of some great university: Dwight Whitney Morrow. His elder daughter, Elizabeth, no literary laggard, teaches in the Englewood, N. J., high school, having been graduated from Smith College three years...
...love interest, her entourage includes two clean-limbed Anglo-Saxons, and the scion of a noble French family. At twenty-six Janey has experienced everything but true love. Disillusioned therefore regarding the tender passion, she rejects her three seagoing suitors, and resolves to barter her wealth and her person for some prince in reduced circumstances...
...Many persons supposed that little Mr. Hays, when sleeping in his apartment during the early morning hours, would occupy a higher position than any other person on the island of Manhattan. Not so. This honor belongs to Oilman Frank E. Kistler of Denver, Col., who sometimes dozes on the 38th airy floor of the new and exclusive 560-ft., 38-story-high Sherry Netherland. The third highest Manhattan residence belongs to Poloist Foxhall Keene who lives on the 36th luxurious floor of the Ritz Towers...
Boston Theatre--The great, the only, etc. Tom Mix in person, accompanied by Tony the Wonder Horse. Not that anybody will want to see them, but we thought they might as well be mentioned...