Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infringed is included in Chapter 47 of the General ordinances. It says, in part: "Nor shall any person distribute in a public street. . . hand-bills. . . circulars, or papers of any kind, except newspapers. Whoever violates. . .this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence." Captain Brennan pointed out that Cohen gave out about five hundred circulars, and, construing each as an offence, he should have been fined...
...Charlie Apted, guardian plenipotentiary of Harvard University and her treasures. As soon as he may show himself about the Square with some degree of immunity, at least from the federal officers, the CRIMSON promises to hold a public reception for the great Oriental dopester to introduce in person this new star on the Cambridge horizon to his vast public...
Phillips Brooks House is able to use almost any person in Harvard College to help carry out its numerous duties. The committee sends members to social centers in the poorer sections of Boston and Cambridge, where these men do both paid and volunteer work in the homes in which the boys congregate. These youngsters are interested in forming clubs, getting organized, or, so it seems, doing anything at all; and if they are not kept busy, they are very liable to get into trouble on the streets. In social service homes, they can compete in games such as basketball...
...educated man runs to fraud," he once said, "while the uneducated person is more given to crimes of brutality and passion. The crime that interests me the most does not interest the public; for me, I love to unravel a really clever fraud...
...whereby he claimed music could be made with a wave of the hand. Had not strange tales of his "ether music" preceded him from Europe, doubtless few would have attended his demonstrations in Manhattan (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). But many of the curious went. They saw a slender, tense person of some 30 years take his stand unaffectedly before an instrument resembling a radio set. Then he adjusted plugs and dials on the box (by which timbre was varied and controlled), moving his hands before two antennae (the right regulating pitch, the left expression), made music which, amplified...