Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear up all misunderstandings at press conferences the President issued what amounted to style book for White House newshawks. It divided all Presidential utterances into four categories: Back ground Remarks which can be directly attributed to the President but in the third person, without quotation marks; Direct Quotations for the occasional phrase, sentence or statement which he announces can be put in direct quotes; Non-attributable Information, dope the press can put out under any brand name that does not indicate its source; Off the Record, secrets, no fair telling under any pretext...
...deaf-mutes who attended the convention of the 57-year-old organization last week danced to the music of a five-piece band, which they felt through their feet. They learned that the only "impostor" (a person of sound hearing who poses as deaf to cadge charitable upkeep) to appear during the past three years, one Charles Burton of Altoona. Pa., had been punished by law, then killed by a motorcar. They pointed with pride to the deaf-mutes who make high mark in the world today-Sculptor Elmer A. Hannon, Poet Howard Leslie Terry, blind Pianist Helen May Martin...
...beginning of his pursuit of vivacious, learned, blonde Suzanne Curchod. 20-year-old Gibbon stalked about the neighboring fields "compelling the peasants to agree at the sword's point that Mile Curchod was the most beautiful person on earth." But when, after Suzanne had accepted him, his father refused to consider a penniless foreigner for a daughter-in-law, Gibbon took only two hours to admit his father was right, a crisis later summed up in his famed line: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed...
...Workers Organizing Committee endorsed by the United Mine Workers. Said S. W. 0. C.: "The Federal Government throughout this entire situation has not displayed the slightest interest in protecting the rights of the steel workers on strike. . . . Seventeen steel workers have been cruelly and wantonly murdered. Not a single person has as yet been brought to account. . . . Not a single steel worker engaged in the strike has as yet been convicted of any serious offense. Only a few fines have been imposed for minor incidents...
...Johnson Woolf, 57, had done this many times before. He would draw a picture of a newsworthy personage and, while doing it, interrogate his subject enough to make a one-page interview to publish with his charcoal sketch. Sometimes he would jot down a few notes about what the person said on the edge of his drawing, but mostly he relied on his amazingly accurate memory. When he was all finished he would ask the famous one to autograph the picture...