Word: personalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mencken complained: "Our maid-of-all-work in [the profanity] department is son-of-a-bitch, which seems as pale and ineffectual to a Slav or a Latin as fudge does to us. There is simply no lift in it, no shock, no sis-boom-ah . . . Put the second person pronoun and the adjective old in front of it and scarcely enough bounce is left in it to shake up an archdeacon. Worse, it is frequently toned down to s.o.b. ... In Standard Italian there are no less than forty congeners of son-of-a-bitch, and each and every...
Among the 24 people and institutions nominated for the 1949 Nobel Peace Prize ("every candidate [must] be proposed in writing by some duly qualified person"): Eleanor Roosevelt, Columnist Drew Pearson, Juan Perón and wife...
...Council Displaced Person Committee will ask the Chairman of the seven House Committees and Dean Bender tomorrow to authorize a drive in the Houses to raise $1 per man up to a total of $2200 for seven DP's who are expected to come to the College next fall...
Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, the fourth volume of his third-person autobiography,* is essentially an arrangement of O'Casey's counter-compliments to the Irish reviewers, clerics and laymen who refused to take him on those terms...
...keen and cogent attack on the social status of the school teacher in America and on the candy-coated moralities daily gushing forth from the radio. Nothing is said, or shown, on these subjects, or any other in the film, that must not have occurred to any thoughtful person, but it is vicariously satisfying to hear them from the silver screen at long last. The strongest propaganda medium in the world has been here put to good...