Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originated, I believe, among the darkies of the South and the correct phrasing-without dialect-is "spirit and image." It was originally used in speaking of some person whose father or mother had passed on-and the colored folks would say-"the very spi't an' image of his daddy...
Presents which accompanied Premier Mussolini as he entrained for Rome-and II Duce was the last person to climb aboard, after which Der Führer on the platform talked to him animatedly through an open window until the car moved off- included three crates of "rare geese" presented by the Berlin Zoo, while the City of Hanover gave Equestrian Mussolini a silver statuette of a charger, the flesh and blood original to be sent to him in Rome. On II Duce's arrival, screaming men and women raced forward waving flags and handkerchiefs with cries to their Dictator...
...just at this point the fairy tale, fiction element enters the picture in the person of John McLaughry, son of the coach...
Recommendation: "That the process of subpoena or any other process of the court should never be used to secure preferential admission of any person or spectator; that such abuse of process be punished as contempt...
...three wavy lines. The pack consists of 25 cards, five cards of each design. To observe clairvoyance, he asks his subjects to identify the cards one by one as the pack lies face down. To observe telepathy they are asked to call cards imagined in the mind of another person...