Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest in this connection is a later edition of the same work which was published in two volumes in 1783 and autographed by Boswell for Mrs. Williams. This lady will be remembered as the person with whom Johnson often partook of afternoon...
Fellow 8., hardworking, quiet sort without any particular vices--uninteresting; Fellow 9., extremely pleasant and likeable fellow; Fellow 10., jovial, genial, all around person . . . most hospitable; Fellow 11., quick mind revelling in sophism . . . ardent punster...
...Corporal Arthur Charles Mortimer, an outstanding misogynist of the British Army who especially hated female cyclists, was held to be sane by a court in Winchester last week, sentenced to be hanged. In the circumstances Mrs. Violet Van der Elst, wealthy and eccentric British widow who usually protests in person every hanging in the United Kingdom (TIME, April 15), was expected to skip that of Mortimer...
...interest in pupils, at 70%. The odium of this last score should be borne largely by the institution, not thrust on the teacher, because St. Paul's does not exalt scholarship, and has preferred to turn out what is known as the all-round citizen, which means a person who excels in nothing. All-round means small-round." ¶ "Education is in part quickened by migration. Sentimental Americans are forever talking about loyalty, meaning a devotion to places rather than to ideas. We are slavish in our school and college loyalties. For some boys it were better...
...demands that Mrs. Boegler be prosecuted, County Attorney Richard L. Becker said, "I cannot see that any laws are violated by these notes, and besides against such a person able to sway the divine will what could a mere mortal county attorney...