Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to my friends. ... I tried visiting firms in person. . . . Finally, believing that somewhere this side of a ledge at the Gotham there is a niche for me, I tried writing my story to well known persons in various fields, persons to whom job-getting would normally involve nothing more than a telephone call. There have been no replies. I am not from the tenements nor from the Junior League and assistance to me would bring them nothing of publicity or drama...
...lawyer, Robert M. Codd Jr. of Buffalo, explained that the whole proceeding against him was illegal. Since 1893 New York has had a law which says: ". . . no person shall maintain an action on a contract against any Indian of the . . . Seneca Nation . . . and every person who prosecutes such an action shall be liable to treble costs to the party aggrieved...
...year job as a District of Columbia Commissioner. Of the President Columnist Evie gushed the other day: "He was so charming that I forgot to be frightened. ... It was quite the most impressive experience I've had, and had it not been for that great personality, I would have been scared to death! He sat up behind his big desk and put every person instantly at ease. He answered questions good-naturedly and quickly-I wonder if there's a question in the world that would make him 'hem and haw.' . . He had on a dark...
...Nictzche," Dean Matthews declared in this connection. "The hero which he presented--the embodiment of the urge for demination, the wordly super-man--is the true anti-Christ of our day. The masses, even in a democracy, must have not only an idea, but that idea embodied in a person; and the choice, is between the Niotzche hero and Christ, who rejects earthly power, preaching service and humility...
...conclusion, Dean Matthews did examine what he called the paradox of the World made flesh,--of God dwelling among men. "How God could become man has always been a baffling mystery," he said. "But the paradox is not so very unreasonable. The way God reveals himself is through human personalities; the Word has over come through inspired persons. So it was that the Word in its complete sense came in a human, personal, life, through a man in complete harmony with God. We must accept the incarnation of the second person of the Trinity; when we do it crystallizes...