Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ignorance of Publisher Patterson, of his history and the history of his House, was common, excusable. While "Bertie" McCormick has loudly functioned outside his newspaper and made himself one of the most widely discussed publishers in the land, "Joe" Patterson has let the News be his voice, kept his person in the background...
Noel Coward is brilliantly demonstrating himself to be about the most agile person on the stage. He can even beat out a pretty fair tap dance but that isn't exactly what's meant. It's the verve and vigor that underlies that ventriloquist's dummy manner of his, that sets one grinning with admiration...
...disease" or "syphilis" Though the Associated Press and United Press occasionally mention this plague in their dispatches, they report that local editors generally blue-pencil it. Symbolic of the Press's hesitancy to take up the Parran crusade in full is the fact that in most states a person described in print as syphilitic can successfully sue for libel...
...vertical aerial photograph the earth's surface looks perfectly flat. Third dimensional relief can be obtained by the principle employed in the oldtime stereoscope. Pictures of the same area are shot from two slightly different positions, thus providing a parallax in the same way that a person's two eyes do in normal sight. The two pictures are then inserted in a super-glorified stereoscope (built with Zeiss for $50,000). So accurate are the controls, so precise the instruments, that with the aid of another optical illusion it is possible on a flat map to trace from...
Author Nevins' 200-page study of the corruption of Grant's Administration, and his two chapters devoted to the President, only deepen the mystery of Grant's personality, although they reveal more clearly than any previous work the character of his weaknesses. Telling again the story of the Whiskey Ring exposure, the panic of 1873, the affair of the U. S. Minister to England who floated a dishonest mining corporation, of Attorney General Williams who paid his large household expenses with Federal funds, of Grant's scheme to annex Santo Domingo for the benefit...