Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much displeased by yesterday's closing of the Lampoon, whatever may be the true story of the situation, as I am pleased with the last, namely, "Esquire" edition. From cover to cover I could find nothing which should be objectionable to an educated person. For a mind in the condition of true toleration and reason, nothing is shocking...
...have missed fire. I remember reading in Mark Twain's Sketch Book not long ago a most gruesome (to the unsound of wit) story about "My Bloody Massacre." Briefly, it describes how Mark Twain wrote under the guise of a murder story a biting satire about a certain person, but no one who read the paper paid any attention to the little details that showed what a great fiction it all was As I remember one bit: "Gosh, Jim, he scalped his wife and b'iled his baby, and--dad-burned if I want any more breakfast...
Nothing fazed by these plaints, Frank-lin Roosevelt promptly worked out a new arrangement to keep the 50 tycoons content: They should discuss their reports with his New Dealers in order to appreciate the official attitude, should discuss them with him in person, then, having been enlightened, revise their reports and publish them. This seemed to the President an excellent modus vivendi and no one doubted that it would work unless the tycoons, after conference with New Dealers, still insisted on being critical of Administration policies...
...Philadelphia, Richard called in the newshawks, gave out a lengthy statement, couched in the third person, declaring the whole affair an incident in a "battle for Wall Street control of Gimbel Bros...
...applicants will receive their tickets if they apply in person at 4 University Hall, between 2 and 5 o'clock on Tuesday, June 18, or between 9 and 1 o'clock on Wednesday, June...