Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Government, although continuing to insist that Viscount Runciman arrived in Prague last week as a "purely private person," engaged a 15-room suite for him at the Alcron Hotel-long the favorite resort of Sudeten German politicians-and proceeded to pay all the bills...
...exceptional even for a traveling British peer, went with Lord & Lady Runciman to Prague. He told reporters: "I may stay a month, or it may be three months." The Czechoslovak Government, on discovering that the British Legation staff were turning out in top hats to meet a Purely Private Person at the station, sent their own top hats, and in every observable respect Britain's unofficial mediator became official. His large staff of British Civil Servants released press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague the Viscount created...
...Wagner, Brahms and Beethoven were most frequently played at Ravinia this summer. Only 4% were bored by any one number, only 8% enjoyed one just moderately. The rest enjoyed everything greatly, except for five people who were bored by a whole program, ten by half of a program. One person asked for a special number next summer-"Roosevelt's Funeral March." The committee decided to look elsewhere than in questionnaires for program ideas...
...Ireland without St. Patrick is unthinkable," declares Gogarty. "Every person in our island shares something of the personality of that steadfast and enduring man. . . ." But this is only Gogarty's briefly stated conclusion. The main content of his tribute to the great Irish epic is an account of his pilgrimage in the legendary footsteps of the Saint. He investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies...
Fritz's 16-year-old daughter Bertha became nominal head of the company, by 1913 was the richest person in Germany...