Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They are scrupulously clean about their sidewalks and gardens, but careless about their person. They are ardent churchgoers, but "hex" conscious and superstitious. They are hard people to do business with, but faithful when once won and kept coddled...
Everybody knows that no criminal has any legal protection against the publication of the facts of his conviction. Murderer Durkin's chief hope for an injunction was therefore based on an unusual Illinois statute which makes it unlawful to exhibit for pecuniary gain criminal or deformed persons. Federal Judge J. Leroy Adair pondered, decided "exhibiting" meant displaying the person as on a vaudeville stage, refused the injunction. Benton & Bowles's Manhattan publicity department shot out an exultant news release claiming "freedom of speech in commercial broadcasting was upheld for the first time in radio history." Promptly Murderer Durkin...
...elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western civilization's advertisers, were an even bigger flop than cigarets. "The total consumption of foreign pills," says Crow, "probably does not average much more than one pill per annum per person." Yet curiously enough reliable insurance companies call the Chinese as good risks as English or Americans...
...made "to the free representatives of the free people," came and put his arm affectionately round Alben Barkley's shoulder. Senator Pat Harrison, defeated by one vote for the post which Barkley won, spoke in tribute to his successful rival. Franklin Roosevelt actually did not appear in person but Vice President Garner, wise, red-faced old man of the Senate, read the President's eulogy of the new Leader, a letter ending with the felicitous phrase: "He knows by sound instinct that on occasion party harmony is aided and abetted by close harmony...
...College is detested by many of the local citizenry who got the Arkansas Legislature to investigate "free love" and ''nudism" at Commonwealth, and last winter Rev. Luther D. Summers, a Baptist of Mena, led a crusade to make the College move away, exclaiming: "What can any decent person think of a school that teaches Communism, free love, Negro equality with white, atheism...