Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name's Moe Buchsbaum and I'm American, see?" was the truculent challenge of a person arrested for speeding in Evreux last week to the black-capped, white-whiskered French judge...
...hate. It seemed to revive the memory of old Russia in them and often that night I could almost feel the guillotine at my throat. They hated me, yet they were fascinated. I stood for all that women who wear jewels represent. Frankly I think I am the only person in ten years who has given poor dismal Russia a thrill. I taught them a lesson. Hereafter when a girl visits Russia she can wear her jewels. There can be no surprise after...
Because a person can be more disrespectful in paint than in print, Nightmare of 1934 proceeded at once to make lively news. In the exhibition's catalog Manhattan newshawks discovered that the playful Jere Miah had placed the initials P. W. A. after his name. Everyone wanted to know the identity of the ungrateful artist who could accept the New Deal's relief money with one hand while burlesquing it with the other. Crowds jammed the hall. Pink with excitement, President Charles Arthur Birch-Field of the West-Chester Institute had the Nightmare placed on a separate wall and charged...
...Ministry of Justice, "Criminals of the fouler sort should not, of course, receive this privilege. They should be decapitated, as at present. The theory of permitting a man to carry out his own sentence is the logical fulfillment of the idea that the last wish of a person condemned to death should be granted...
...certainly have no wish to appear an alarmist, hut I think the people should be told that this epidemic might become a serious thing. It appears that as influenza is passed from person to person, it becomes more and more deadly. . . . Since it appears that it increases in virulence as it travels, it should be brought home to every sufferer of the disease that for the community good, as well as for their own good, they should take every precaution to prevent its spread...