Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with flood control, soil erosion and the other conservation problems. Although the President hardly mentioned electric power in his message, the bills introduced into each House of Congress to carry out the program provided that the regional agencies could create corporations for that purpose. They also provided that "No person shall be appointed a regional planning director unless he professes a belief in the feasibility and wisdom of this...
...Would the President call it tax evasion or tax avoidance or unethical for such a person who wants to give his whole income to charity if the benefactor in question writes to all the companies from which he receives salary or dividends and tells them to make out the checks directly to the charities...
Richard Himber and his orchestra, including Colman Cass in person and the Gibson girl have been chosen to play at the Senior Spread, to be held in Lowell House on the evening of Monday, June...
...takes the stand and reveals the cliches of his trade. Several letters, ranging from the violent to the academic, follow in their usual place. More reviews bring us to "The Bowling Alley," where the King of the Kinsprits gets what's been coming to him these many years. The person who ghosted this feature deserves to be congratulated on having imitated Morley's manner so well, even to the footloose anecdotes and the triple ambersands...
When Warwick Deeping is writing in his own person, he likes to use much stiff-legged literarities as "flavicomous, ecology, otiose," speaks of people "occluding" the doorway. But his wistful better nature comes to the fore in his characters' speeches, which are always from the heart. Says Rosamund: "One has such a horror of being either priggish or sentimental. They call me sentimental in my books, but I'm not really." Says Clive: "Me! Oh, I'm just a rather affectionate sort of ass." Author Deeping can be alarmingly severe with people he doesn't like...