Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of passersby, stopping to crane their necks backward at Mr. Kelly, loitered a moment longer to argue with one another whether or not he is a hero. Some went home and read from Webster's Dictionary: "Hero ... a person of distinguished ... fortitude in suffering. . . ." That seemed to cover Marathon Rooster Kelly...
...American embassy will sail on the S. S. Sluttgart on July 12 for Paris where it will attend an arbitration treaty with representatives of the French Youth Movements. Professor Sayre's treaty will be presented in person to the French students with an appeal for action, and it is hoped that, at a public ceremonial, the treaty will be signed by representatives of the youth of both nations. Over a half dozen colleges and universities will be represented by this expedition...
...result. Erskine maintains the integrity and complexity of his character, and the reader is impressed even if he is disillusioned and mortified. Thomas makes the serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying her most minute sins into heinous debauchery Anyone having entertained admiration for Shakespeare's Cleopatra whose person "beggar'd all description" will put aside "Cleopatra's Private Diary," the appetite cloyed, the effect being similar to that obtained by eating cheap chocolates...
...Cleopatra stroking the "smooth dark, velvety skin" of her black African eunuch, Cinnabar, with her bear foot. Cleopatra drinking herself under the table at a Roman revel repeatedly gives one the impression that it is not a queen of Egypt writing of her experiences in Rome, but a first person description of a scenario. There is an abundance of tinsel, clap-trap, and blowing of tin horns. Cleopatra becomes a burlesque queen without a vestige of her Nilotic lure and intellectuality...
...family line bears still a light touch of eightteenth-century-grace and sprightliness; his-still successful-son is of Victorian solidity, not without a note of religious and general hypocrisy. The third generation consists of one sister of energetic, lively character, and of two brothers; one an entirely useless person, given to a frivolous life much to the sorrow of his parents, and yet-poor Christian-a good companion and a likeable fellow! His elder brother keeps better in line with the family tradition. He brings the name to full splendor by becoming a senator; he erects a new home...