Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between England and Russia. A further vote of thanks is due the author for having compressed no small amount of recondite facts into a compact volume, written in a clear, readable style of exposition which might well serve as a model for subsequent treatises in comparative literature. Only a person as learned as Dr. Simmons will be able, of course, to measure nicely how much compression has taken place; the general reader's gauge must be the number of suggestions which present themselves here and there...
Becoming Solicitor General put Stanley Reed in the first line of the New Deal's legal defense at a critical moment. The Solicitor General's job is to decide what cases should be appealed to the Supreme Court and to represent the Government in person before that august bench. Solicitor General J. Crawford Biggs re-signed last month after many New Dealers had decided that he was not making the best of the Administration's defense (TIME. March 25). Mr. Reed, taking office, understood well enough that he was expected to do better. But he was hardly...
...report to the Pope on his see. When he left the South Seas he took a cinema of natives. Australian censors wanted to cut out scenes showing the bare breasts of women. Bishop Wade cussed the censors, roared: "There's no more sex appeal to a white person in a native than in the side of a wall...
What did Mrs. Roosevelt think of that for a snub? Mrs. Roosevelt did not think it was a snub at all. "A snub," she defined, "is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior; to do so, he has to find someone who can be made to feel inferior." From that it followed that Miss Perkins could not possibly have been snubbed...
...Horowitz stormed Berlin, then made a tour of Europe. After his debut in Manhattan in 1928, U. S. reporters tried hard to dramatize him but the pianist who could sparkle so on the concert platform proved to be an excessively shy person offstage. Money in his pocket led him to many a naive taste but none worth headlines. He took to wearing pink and red shirts, fussed about his tailoring. In London he bought a Rolls-Royce, which still impresses him greatly. Until lately he has taken little pains with his English...