Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gravely accepted from President Roosevelt the $2 Medal (of Honor) which made him the 1,825th person in U. S. history to receive this No. 1 award" (TIME...
Wrote the Saturday Evening Post of Senator Harrison in 1923: "He is the official sniper and sharpshooter of the Democratic side. ... He is constantly rising to his feet behind the desk that once belonged to Jefferson Davis and planting a poisoned dart or a red-hot bullet in the person of a Republican Senator or thrusting a keen harpoon into the Republican Party, or casting with unerring aim a wreath of poison ivy upon the brows of President Harding...
...eyed Jessie Matthews, this musi-comedy sometimes staggers along in low gear, sometimes spins at a sparkling clip. Mass Matthews is visible and audible almost all the time in a number of elaborate sets and a variety of costumes, some of which reveal nearly all of her personable person. As Gaumont British has found...
...investigate moral and social conditions as they affect Southern Baptist life." Said a "messenger" (delegate) : "We don't want any of that Communistic business in this convention." Fellowship Meetings. An odd liaison between the Northern and Southern conventions appeared in St. Louis in the loud-voiced, bumptious person of Rev. John Franklyn ("J. Frank") Norris, famed Texas evangelist who is nominal pastor of 12,000 Baptists in Fort Worth, actual shepherd of a flock of 5,000 in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 14, 1935). Baptist Norris got his Fort Worth church to pay the necessary $250 fee, armed himself with...
...sharpen the movie-urge. The featured attraction is "The Garden Murder Case" with Edmund Lowe doing a good job as Philo Vance. It's clever and only slightly predictable. The companion piece is the now familiar "Give Us This Night" which offers the pleasing voice and ever so charming person of Miss Gledys Swarthout singing her way through a Neopolitan opera romance. She is considerably abetted by Jan Kiepara...