Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced last winter that it would raise and spend $2,000,000 in this autumn's elections. Last week the A. A. P. A. announced that it was writing to its 200,000 enrolment and asking $10 from each person. It promised to send the money "straight to the firing line" to help elect anti-Prohibition or modificationist Congressmen. Also, to make sure which men it wanted to support and which to fight, the A. A. P. A. sent questionnaires to all Congressional candidates...
...occasion of Dr. Millikan's address was the award made to him of the Messel Medal, an award bestowed by the society every two years upon the person whose work has been most conducive to the progress of science...
...truism that hands are as expressive as faces and it is true that they are a more certain means of identification. Nonetheless, because it is easy to see, a face is the more convenient link between a person and his name. So convenient indeed that it is regarded as the index, not to a person's name alone, but even to his character; faces, in fact, are almost always mistaken for persons. Hence when a proud man wishes to leave something of his pride, after death, above the humble dust; when a famed man wishes to allow his admirers...
Because no person will agree with another person's view of him, few persons are satisfied with their portraits. John Davison Rockefeller expressed delight at seeing Sargent's portrait of him but Calvin Coolidge, when he had been painted by Philip Lazlo, sent for the artist to come and finish one of his hands. What emotions of embarrassment, scorn, amusement and despair Painter Lazlo must have concealed in the letter which he addressed to the President to inform him that the hand was finished...
...chief executive. Often I have mistaken the secretary for the president of the corporation. His suavity and pomposity have forced from me the most excessive politeness, whereas when I met the president I have been induced to give him only perfunctory attention, as if he were a person of no importance. The American private secretary is unique. He is unique and efficient, seeming to assume all the responsibility for the corporation by which he is employed...