Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White Russian Congress referred to by Dictator Stalin presented an appeal as follows to the 71-year-old Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich in Paris (TIME, April 19, 1926) : "Monseigneur: The Russian Congress, which unites all the patriots aspiring to the re-establishment of the Russian nation, acclaims in the person of your Imperial Highness the foreordained representative of the nationalist idea as well as the glorious supreme chief of the army and defender of the fatherland since the first days of our Calvary...
...just to see how it looks in little bits. "Steeplejack" Huneker, as he was known, liked to exasperate the uplifters of the late Victorian era by his disgraceful behavior. Many a stein of beer he quaffed in scandalous company. Many an adventure he enjoyed because no proper person would. Slyly he defended the social standing of young ladies with bodies like "white satin stoves." He exulted in his holy war on behalf of Chopin. He inspired the admiration, even the imitation, of the religiously individualistic H. L. Mencken...
Meanwhile the Whitney pardon encouraged the friends of many another person convicted under the California syndicalism law. In 1925, there were 72 such serving sentences in California jails...
...introduction of science is the outstanding fact of our time, and in morals science has created an entirely new moral situation. For when you have introduced contraceptions you have changed your moral situation. You have done away with that old, but very effective weapon which has deterred many a person from going beyond the accepted moral code-fear of consequences. That fear no longer rests in the breast of any scientifically educated man or woman, and along with the passing of that fear is also going a vast amount of ignorance and misinformation upon the whole sexual relationship...
...himself. Copyrighted by the New York Times Co., in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, South America, Europe and the British Empire, they were widely syndicated. Countless breakfast eggs grew cold while readers feasted upon "Lindbergh's own story," devoured the flight-tale as told in the first person by the flyer himself...