Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dogs were drugged to death. Recovering her composure, bereft Mrs. Whittle cried: "I'll sue, and sue for plenty! The person who broke into my home and carried off my dogs will...
...after the Suns had run up a frightening deficit under Charles H. Grasty (who succeeded Walter Abell as president of A. S. Abell Co. in 1910), an able financier came to the rescue in the person of Baltimore's Van Lear Black. Hearing whispers that the Suns were going down for the last time, Mr. Black brought from New York the It Pays to Advertise company under the direction of George M. Cohan for a special morning performance before a group of Baltimore businessmen who were guests of the Sun management. Before the show they heard an ode composed...
...Minsky kept his nose out of it". And secondly those who have risen in indignation to put a stop to the evil have spoken with a voice of authority that would have been difficult to deny. When the shepherd of the Catholic diocese of New York in the person of Cardinal Hayes lashes out in the attack, rash indeed would be the parishioner who opposed...
...society where liberties are crumbling away, the tendency to accomplish "reforms" by administrative fiat rather than by judicial hearings is one of the first signs of weakness. There is nothing in New York law or tradition that sanctions the practice of combining judge and jury in the single person of Mr. Moss. For someday the official inquisitor may not be so enlightened a man as Mr. Moss, and the voice of authority may ring out for the abridgement of some less undesirable pursuit than Mr. Minsky's. It would surely set a better precedent to take this matter before...
...through all the highways and byways of the University catalogue, will have to be found. It was suggested in these columns in February that a system of proctor-advisers be instituted,--the men to live in or near the Yard, to be given no more than twenty advisees a person, to have enough authority to make their influence felt, and to be paid an adequate stipend for their services. Since February the University has not budged an inch forward. But it is as true today as in the winter months that if the Freshmen are to have adequate advising...