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Word: personent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from an enormous number of people who are apparently on the verge of suicide and who are waiting for word from me to go ahead. So many of the letters are so pathetic and so complicated that in every instance I am taking the time to answer each letter personally and attempt to get each person who has written me into contact with a local physician or psychiatrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...Barretry: The offense of exciting lawsuits; the bringing of suits in the name of fictitious plaintiffs, or without a real person's consent; also, the stirring up of quarrels, spreading false rumors of evil import, thus disturbing the public peace; commonly confounded with barratry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1937 | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Last July Frank Monroe was killed by an automobile. Frank was not just a person; he was an institution that served with unbounding geniality the users of the Indoor Athletic Building since the day it opened in 1930. He handed out towels to the swimming and basketball teams and others that have passed by and he was a friend to all. He was a stream of laughter that did not desiccate when Freshmen asked, one after another, for information posted nearby. He know everyone's first name, as well as their last, and their human peculiarities. He knew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HIS MEMORY | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

Tommy Dorsey and Edythe Wright, songstress of his orchestra, will appear in person in Cambridge this afternoon. Briggs & Briggs, 1272 Massachusetts Avenue, report that the pair are visiting their store between 2:20 and 2:35 o'clock to autograph any records brought or bought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorsey Here Today | 9/28/1937 | See Source »

...mind empty of words. He saw the actress coming up a studio aisle--it was a theatre set--and he still had nothing to say. He said bello how are you and smiled. Some one else, a blonde, was coming near. "Ginger, can you bear to meet this person? A hasty introduction. "You go to Harvard, do you? Where are you going now?" "To Honolulu. Want to come?" "Oh, a Fresh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

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