Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League gives its official approval to the true biography of Mr. William Randolph Hearst by Airs. Fremont Older. It denounces the other current biographies of this great American as stink-bombs. They are petty attempts of persons in the pay of Moscow to discredit the person who has done most to help rid the country of the red menace, to save the country's honor, to deliver the suffering Cubans from the yoke of Spain, to make the United States safe for democracy, to keep 'America for the Americans...
...This Administration . . .," wrote he last week, "is too often undiscriminating in its interest in the novel, too likely to accept the new merely because it is new." Last week-end observers who had begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person...
Boas observed that nowhere on earth was there such a thing as a pure race, and that the term "race" was a vague and ap proximate one at best. He doubted that there were any "superior" races. To Boas it seemed that if one person was innately superior to another, it was because there was more genetic difference between family lines than between racial types. Anatomists cannot tell the difference between the brains of a Swede and a Negro. They may distinguish the skulls, but it has been shown over & over that neither the size nor shape of the skull...
...March day last week's concert was first announced, every seat in Carnegie Hall was sold at topnotch prices within a few hours. Subsequent demands fairly exhausted the patience of the box-office staff. One person would argue that he had never heard a Toscanini performance, that this was therefore his last chance. The next in line would claim that he had attended all the Maestro's concerts, that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East...
...done most to combat this disease in the U. S., has repeatedly asked for a $10,000,000 cancer research institution in Manhattan. With such an institution and five similar ones in five other major cities, he claims that oncologists can eventually conquer cancer which, by killing one person in every thousand each year, ranks second as a cause of death in the U. S.&* The present old cancer hospital takes care of 325 patients a day, has some 11,000 active cases of cancer on its outpatient rolls. The new hospital will care for twice as many patients...