Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...always read your articles on people with much interest. As you say "Names make news." Do you know of any other person with more names than this: When visiting my friend Mrs. Edward Beckford Crane at her winter home in St. Petersburg, Fla., we discussed the duties and pleasures of motherhood. She said to me, Do you realize how many kinds of mother I am: twelve. I enclose you the list she gave...
Another woman, Dame Clara Butt, 55, onetime famed contralto, had written Pen Man Shaw, asking him to do a preface for her forthcoming biography. Replied he: ''Good gracious! I'd never dare! You're a much bigger person than I. I should look like a ridiculous little busybody making a pretentious bow in your limelight. And, anyhow, what could I say of Clara Butt...
...know how long Mussolini will last, but Fascism shall last longer. ... I will leave to Italy the institution of Fascism established on solid grounds-an historic institution. . . . The youth of Italy shall be trained so that in this country there shall be a place for each person and each person shall be in that place. Let no one waste his time speculating on what will become of Fascism when Mussolini is gone...
...other incumbent is adipose, leonine Richard Yates, onetime (1901-05) Governor of Illinois, an aging person whose chief distinction in the House was that his name alone began with "Y" (until this year, when Representative Tom A. Yon arrived from Florida...
...McCormick is a high-strung person of taste and refinement. It was curious to see her thrown in with such figures as Small, Thompson and Deneen. Yet in with them she was. People who voted the Deneen ticket voted also for her. This was curious because Deneen is her sworn enemy, the enemy of her dead husband, Medill McCormick, whose Senate seat Deneen won in 1924, just before Mr. McCormick died. Deneen dislikes her, too, and fears her. She plans to fight him for the Senate seat...