Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared that this person was engaged to marry the honest vegetable peddler Martinus van Stijn and wished to do so on the day of the Crown Princess' marriage. How far was it appropriate to go in this case? The wench and her vegetable man were both of substantial folk in the village of Oegstgeest. They were not going to have a Third-Class wedding (free) at the Town Hall, nor a Second-Class wedding ($2.75), but were prepared to pay for a First-Class wedding ($5.50) with the bridegroom in striped trousers and tails, the bride in modest everyday...
...protestations of sincerity they booed and he winced. In silence they heard him say: ''I am ... convinced that any unbiased person . . . would be warranted in concluding that it was not desirable in the best interests of the university to retain Dr. Frank's services as president." Peculiar was the position of Acting President Sellery, an arch-conservative educator called affectionately by some, contemptuously by others, "The Old Tory." In 1917 he and most of the rest of Wisconsin's faculty signed a round robin denouncing old Father "Fighting Bob" La Follette for his pacifism. La Follette...
Maude Royden gave up her Guildhouse pulpit for good last month, planning to devote all her time in future to preaching Peace. She is no stranger to the U. S. Upon her second arrival, in 1927, many a non-religious person went to hear her talk largely because bluenoses had cackled that she smokes an occasional cigaret. Last week ship newshawks did not bother to ask her about smoking. Said...
...Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson and Max Epstein, Chicago tank car tycoon who chairmanned the Wartime Draft Board. "Yellow fever." observed adventuring Dr. Heiser. "has been largely driven back into Africa. . . . One infected person or one infected mosquito carried to Europe or India by plane could start an epidemic that would wipe out millions. It would probably be the greatest disaster in the history of the world...
...conversation on that occasion was solely of a general nature and took at no time the confidential turn indicated by Noyes in his articles. . . . Mrs. Simpson . . . authorized him only to publish a portrait in words of herself with the object of rectifying many fantastic reports concerning her person ally. Therefore Mrs. Simpson noted with amazement that the actual articles far exceeded in scope any possible portrait in words. . . . She has retained Maître Armand Grégoire, Paris attorney, to defend her interests." Attorney Gregoire was reported considering suits for fat libel against such mass newsorgans as Paris-Soir...