Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arnold has spent most of his life in China, having been made Student Interpreter at the American legation in Peking in 1902, the first person to hold this post. In 1914 he was named Consul-General at Hankow and in the same year gained the position he still holds as Commercial attache...
...widow Thomas is an extremely loquacious, scatter-brained person, who, is develops, is meant to be irresistibly attractive in a plump, helpless, middle-aged way. Her charm is unfortunately obscured, with the result that a perfectly honest suitor, a sinister looking Italian who deals in rugs, is mistaken in the first act by most of the audience for a crafty villain with some base design to his wooing. He subsequently appears, however, for no worse end than to supply the impoverished family with some sorely needed cash at the opportune moment. This change of face is not intended...
...Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood of 333,000 telegrams to Senators and Congressmen. Their notion that Roosevelt was really a Hitler in disguise reached its climax last week when 150 "Paul Reveres" from Chicago, New England and New York journeyed to Washington to demonstrate against Reorganization in person. By this time, the principal excuse for detecting real danger in the bill-the provision whereby the President's changes in agencies could be nullified only by a two-thirds vote-had been counteracted, and passage of several other amendments had made the bill even more innocuous than...
...Student Union, briskly assembled his associates and their penny plunder, organized the Taxcentinels. Purpose of the stunt, explained Baumann, was to protest against "hidden taxes." The Taxcentinels signed a pledge "to help fight the growth of taxes which now consume 25? out of every dollar spent by the average person . . . [by paying] one-quarter of the price of all purchases in pennies, in order to dramatize this situation...
...scurry off. Two women, plump, middle-aged, the kind who dress the same for every occasion, every season, every time they go out of the house. A lad whose gaudy suit calls up instant associations with bargain basements. A sour wisp of a woman, ugly and thirty, about whose person the shadow of an old maid already hangs, trying desperately to make last year's finery do. In all of them, exaggerated copies of the true styles, or else utter disregard for any sort of style. Except one amazingly patrician and good looking girl who looks out of place...