Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ebullient Dubliners said this makes their country a republic and it certainly kills "the person of the King" in the Free State, but that person has been a legal fiction. Teacherish President Eamon de Valera said dryly that his Free State has not withdrawn from the "British Commonwealth of Nations." The Dail vote he explained "leaves the King only a vague title in the international affairs of the Irish Free State. He has no longer any internal powers...
...Dorsey considers a "real addict" a person who smokes 20 to 50 cigarets a day. Such a person, wishing to cut out smoking, may try nerve sedatives, hard candy, astringent lozenges, gumchewing, but still his task is hard. "After a man has lit a cigar, cigaret or pipe after every meal for many years he will at first be at a loss what to do with his hands at such times. Likewise the confirmed cigaret smoker wants a cigaret between fingers or lips when under any tension...
...Brown snow machine made the wintersports show possible, Hannes Schneider was what made it profitable. To him, as head of the famed Arlberg Skiing School, more than to any other single person in the world, is attributable skiing's current world-wide boom. In Stuben, Austria, near the Tyrolean border, Hannes Schneider grew up when Alpine skiing, imported from Norway where it had become a major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize...
...musical show which the Federal Theatre Project presented in Chicago last week. Titled 0 Say Can You Sing?, FTP's "musical comedy revue" had been more than four months in the making. To stage, costume, write, score, act and direct it, the Government had hired at $23.50 per person per week some 250 untried, unemployed or unfit stage folk from the Chicago area. Result was a three-hour performance which did not differ in quality from most previous amateur or Federal drama. When it was good it was very good, when it was bad it was awful...
...person and by proxy the stockholders of an unusual U. S. investment trust assembled last week in Jersey City, there solemnly voted their corporation out of business. The trust was no down-at-the-heel affair with a sorry or unsavory history. It was Mayflower Association, Inc. with assets of some $19000,000 and one of the best records in the field. Its stock was launched on the full crest of the 1929 boom at $60 per share. Its liquidating value today is more than $77, after past distributions of some $27 in cash and stock...