Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profess such smug scorn. I realize this is a waste of typewriter ink and time, but hope that my protest will be one of many. Few people enjoy and none needs the sight of photographed corpses. It is revolting, and cheap, and I would like to think that the person responsible for these two pictures among your high-class collection had been, or would be, called down. . . . BEATRICE U. FALAMON...
Senate. This year he felt certain of getting the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Felix Hebert-and 1934 looks hopefully Democratic. Last week, however, the distinguished onetime Senator had an unpleasant shock. A person named Goucher (pronounced Gooshay) had announced that he too was going out for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Goucher is also distinguished. His paternal family is of old French stock. His great-grandfather and two great-grand uncles were the founders of Goucher College for Women in Baltimore. He was the 14th in a family of 17 children; his schooling had extended only up to the third...
...When there is talk of revolution in this country, you tell that person who mentions revolution that there is one too many letters in that word and it should be evolution...
...year ago that withered little lemur of a man, Mahatma Gandhi, was the best beloved person in all India. But during the past twelvemonth St. Gandhi has almost entirely abandoned his popular anti-British civil disobedience campaign for his unpopular campaign to break the caste system and liberate Hindu Untouchables. Driving into Buxar last week, St. Gandhi's automobile was waylaid by an angry, hooting crowd which smashed windshield, windows and hood, hurt everyone in the car but St. Gandhi. Deeply depressed, the Mahatma planned a three-week fast as penance. It was the first recorded attack on India...
...plain man-in-the-street sometimes feels that William Shakespeare never existed at all as a real person, or that perhaps he actually was Francis Bacon or an incarnation of Ignatius Donnelly in disguise. Most experts agree, however, that William Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon was the Shakespeare of the Plays and Sonnets which are still the highest peak in the jagged outline of English literature. But there remain many mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary...