Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...
...week long President Roosevelt was face to face with the embarrassing problem of what to do about the late AAA (see p. 18). Once during the week he came face to face with a far more embarrassing situation: six Justices of the Supreme Court in person. Standing with Mrs. Roosevelt before a wall of potted palms in the Red Room, the President held out his hand and a gleam of special pleasure came into his eye as Mr. Chief Justice Hughes and his Lady appeared at the official White House reception for the Judiciary. The same gleam of personal pleasure...
...things to tell. The hawk-nosed, hawk-minded Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Chamberlain did not go home to gloomy Birmingham, but holidayed in Dorking with a large and merry party. Up in Scotland the superstition that one's New Year will be unlucky unless the first person across one's doorstep is a dark-haired man. kept dark-haired Dominions' Secretary Malcolm MacDonald busy making New Year's midnight calls on Lossiemouth neighbors, while his father, snowy-haired Lord President of the Council James Ramsay MacDonald, diplomatically stayed at home visiting with Daughter Sheila...
...Union Baptist Church. At 8 she was billed as "The Baby Contralto," sang Sing Me to Sleep with her dark, buxom aunt. The Negro parson was Marian Anderson's first critic. Said he: "It is amazing that so much voice can come from such a very small person...
...skull. Dr. Jacobson's needle, therefore, perforated only scarred scalp to plunge one and a half inches into the living brain. Because this experiment harmed the man not at all, Dr. Jacobson hopes to perform "further experimentae cruciae" to learn precisely what happens in the brain when a person makes a movement, and then possibly what to do in case of paralysis...