Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After all," he concluded, "the best lawyer, probably, is the most civilized person...
Individuals have been placed in charge of each of the Houses while members of the Freshman Committee will cover the Yard. One person will be selected in each entry to visit the rooms in that entry. Clothes and text-books are especially desired...
...gentle brew of sentiment and humor, and the latter ingredient is racy enough to make the play wholly charming. Ian Hay, the author, gives more or less of an autobiography, since he too has been a master in an English boarding school. The title character is the sort of person who flogs his charges for the sake of discipline, and then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline until three females...
...canvas: 6 ft. 10 in. by 8 ft. 3 in. It was acquired by Mr. Widener from the private collection of the Pellerin family in Paris. Price: $110,000. After Mr. Widener's formal presentation, the Pennsylvania Museum put the painting on display, predicted proudly that "no person informed in the field of modern art will be able to miss the opportunity of seeing and studying a picture which has been described [by Critic Lionello Venturi] as 'the master invention of Cézanne's architectural imagination...
...gaining of a steady, dependable character is, however, much more than recovery from failure. No man has stability of character until he has become a real person' with god and useful ambitions...