Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no limit to the length of the plans not is there any limit to the number of plans any one contestant may send but not more than one award will be made to the same person. The contest will close at noon on Monday, November...
...proved that some years ago." (He was a captain of infantry and he still, contrary to British army regulations, uses the title.) Before the National Press Club in Washington, he surveyed his audience after a brief introduction. "I do not want to bore you," he protested, "with any personal history of myself. ... I do not think any person's personality is as interesting as his job.?? ... I will say I came out of the War very nearly ruined in health and pocket...
...those footless cases which a dash of sex appeal and a tang of alcohol make so palatable for the public?a typical Broadway morsel?that was dished up last week in a Federal court in Manhattan. The protagonists were the Government (in the person of U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner) and Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some...
...Herbert Samuel. The logical person to whisper about conciliatorily among the stern-faced, set-lipped combatants was, of course, the man who chairmaned the Royal Coal Commission (TIME, Oct. 19), the impartial investigator who presumably knew more than any other man in England about the friction in the coal industry which ultimately generated first the "coal strike" and the "general strike." Fortunately this man, Sir Herbert Samuel, is of such outstanding ability as to have become one of the four Jews who have held British Cabinet posts. Adroit but upright, he won fame as a conciliator while High Commissioner...
...this era's most satisfactory spine-chillers on the stage, to read it in a book. One suspects that one of Mrs. Rinehart's literarily inclined sons -Alan, the publicity man, or Stanley, a still-higher-up of their mother's publisher - is the unnamed "third person" who alleges he was a nervous derelict after transcribing from scenes to chapters the ghoulish excitement that takes place, in and about Manhattan, when the Mark of the Bat begins to be found near people with bullet-holes in their ribs, and in a house with a secret room...