Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children the news after they were fed and before they went to bed so they could sleep on it." When the first shock had passed 50 of the children sent apologies to Camp Commandant Henry Brinton, declared: "Some of us decided the news was being broadcast by a person of Fascist sympathies...
...days when popular ballads sang of little tots tugging their papas away from the saloon and home to their sick and starving families, Illinois passed its Dram-Shops Act. Any one injured or deprived of his means of support as a result of another person's intoxication could apply for damages not only from the grog seller, but from the grog seller's landlord. Repealed during Prohibition, Illinois' Dram-Shops Act of 1874 was revived in the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and last week it was invoked by a Chicago lady who claimed her Christmas...
...deep Arroyo Seco in which squats the Rose Bowl. According to local legend, when this bridge was built in 1912, several workmen were buried alive in the concrete and their tortured spirits haunt the place. Certainly it has been a sorry spot: fortnight ago the 88th person jumped to death over its low parapet...
...anguish of his heart when the wife of his bosom bends over him with her pale, earnest face, and, as she wipes the fever-drops from his brow, with the sublime energy of woman's endurance, whispers resignation, hope! . . . How different would be the condition of such a person, if, in the days of his health and strength he had become a member of our Noble Order...
...head of a college in a country situated in Virginia. A man who can do what he has done, take arms for a cause which nothing but his intellectual approval could justify his serving but which his intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen towards the general government' will ever do away with the effect of his example.... No crime against society to which faction or sophistry or passion can tempt will ever equal that to the commission...