Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great changes must be made; no thoughtful person can desire the permanent existence of the status quo. Things that served their purpose well a few years ago are not necessarily best fitted to meet the needs of the future. Some things must be scrapped. The common man must be given an opportunity to lead a happier life. Everyone who desires a job and is competent, must, from sheer justice, be given an opportunity to hold one; the country is duty bound to accomplish this even at the expense of forcing the permanent discontinuation of the huge bonuses paid to industrialists...
...shall appear that any person has been tampering with any witness in respect to any evidence to be given in this House or in committee thereof, or directly or indirectly, has endeavored to defeat or hinder any person from giving evidence, the same is declared to be a High Crime and Misdemeanor, and the House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender...
Reading eyes grow blurred, skip words and lines. Heads ache, nerves twitch, stomachs misbehave. Students fail in their classes. Motorists and aviators misjudge distances, sometimes fatally. Many a person so afflicted has gone from one eye doctor to another, without relief. He was suffering from no ailment known to ophthalmology...
...executives have been known to wager that not one person out of ten could name A. & P.'s president. "Outside" man for the country's biggest grocery chain, John A. Hartford nonetheless eludes public appearance, is not listed in Poor's Register of Directors. Few housewives know that it was he who launched A. & P.'s first economy store in 1912 on a busy corner in Jersey City and opened 7,500 more in the next 900 days. In Manhattan where he belongs to no clubs, lunches alone at the Biltmore on crackers and milk...
...only obvious handle Author Cantwell gives to critics who would call his book propaganda is the title. In the story itself, he never once intrudes, never gives the impression that his class-warriors are aided or struck down from his hidden Olympus. Though the whole narrative is objective, third-person, Author Cantwell shifts the focus to each principal character in turn...