Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer-long observance of the 650th anniversary of the child exodus led by the Pied Piper. On June 26 a monument to the Piper will be unveiled and dedicated. Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha of the Algonquian Ojibwas ceased to be a legend, was proved a person when the Smithsonian Institution announced that, an Iroquois, he lived between 1550 and 1600, was a cannibal by tribal custom...
...never forgotten it. 'I was kneeling next to an elderly man,' she says. 'When the cup was passed to me there was a discharge on the rim nearest, so obvious and unmistakable that I fainted. I was told afterwards that the clergyman and the person on my left caught the cup before it reached the floor.' . . ."-Harold F. James, Rochester, N. Y. "I myself 'caught' typhoid fever from a sick parishioner, although I carefully washed my hands immediately after administering to them the Holy Communion."-Rev. John Munday, Temple City, Calif. "Every priest knows...
...with Dr. Zoong Ing Ting. In Manhattan last week Columbia University Press announced publication of Eleanor Gertrude Brown's Ph. D. dissertation on Milton's Blindness. "No one," wrote she, "would deny that blindness has its deprivations. That it has its compensations is recognized by every sightless person." Eleanor Brown, 46, was born blind. Scholarships and loans from women's clubs paid for readers and other expenses at Ohio State University but her own industry got her an A. B. in 3½ years. As an experiment, a Dayton high school gave her a teaching...
...apparently, is a direct and unblushing representation of American life." Architect Frank Lloyd Wright meets with Critic Craven's approval. One of the few art writers of today to uphold George Grey Barnard and his vast vaporings in stone, Mr. Craven recalls that no less a person than Rodin once openly envied this aging U. S. sculptor. Of Jacob Epstein's 100-odd "masculine" bronzes, he says: "There is not a dead one in the lot. . . . One of the most original styles in all sculpture." He advises Jose Clemente Orozco to return to Mexico if he wants...
...regulating industry and agriculture as far back as 1931. What the Chamber had not originated were such checks & balances as the labor section of NIRA or the Government's power to impose codes on an unwilling industry. Wolf. Last year President Roosevelt went before the fearful Chambermen in person to explain his ideas of a partnership between Government and Business. The Chamber promptly plumped for self-regulation under the Government's watchful eye, but few of the delegates foresaw how close and intimate that partnership was to be. Yet if U. S. businessmen had occasionally found the partnership...