Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passenger gawped upward into the French Liner's rigging at one Chrysis de la Grange, a shapely girl who calls herself the world's champion twist rope acrobat, was busy proving it in a bathing suit for publicity purposes. Among the gawpers was another publicity-minded person, fubsy, pink-chopped, little Harold Keates Hales, Member of Parliament who has achieved his place in the sun not by cavorting on a rope but by donating the Hales Blue Ribbon Trophy for transatlantic speed (TIME, July 29).*The final masterpiece in a career of diligent eccentricity which includes never blowing...
...pack, which are divided into two equal parts. The first 100 each have the picture of a Japanese poet with two lines of a poem of his written below the picture. On each of the other 100 the poem is finished. In playing the game one person reads the poem, while the other tries to put her finger on the picture of the poet who wrote...
Jasper Ammen is a singularly unpleasant person to read about. Some will find it hard to sympathize with him, others will find delight in a sublimation of their "Superman" tendencies. To anyone Conrad Aiken's portrait is a fearfully real...
Mistakes & Sins. In Rome last week, aside from the cares of war (see p. 14), the Dictator busied himself daily grappling with the awful risks he runs by steering a Victorian course in 1935. At his very elbow last week was the League of Nations in the person of grey-haired, ruddy-cheeked Sir Eric Drummond. As Secretary General of the League from its founding until he resigned amid widespread regret two years ago, this British Ambassador to Rome is ripe with "The Spirit of Geneva," "The Spirit of Locarno...
...energy of the English, nor the intense, if sometimes wasteful, energy of the American, nor the exacting Pflichtgefühl of the Germans. . . . [Mussolini's] extraordinary laborious life is founded upon the robust vitality and physique of a burly, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, rather short, well-knit athletic person...