Word: persons
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...words can be perfect synonyms. A "whack" is a blow delivered much in the same way as a "thwack," but it presupposes a certain capable nonchalance in the deliverer. A thwack is a blow delivered more clumsily, though with equal vigor, by some person not accustomed to administering physical violences; as a timid schoolboy, an enraged English butler, any octogenarian...
Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Co., a vast open-shop organization, did not speak in person. President Green quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young...
...would want to kill Judge Tillman Davis Johnson? Mrs. Eliza Simmons, widow, was one person. "I'll show you how to get justice!" was what she had screamed as she shot. At her home, Widow Simmons produced a rambling document penned by her, in which she declared war on the Utah Copper Co., for whom her husband had been a brakeman until his accidental death in 1910, and on "hardboiled" Judge Johnson...
Then, one shining afternoon, a kindly, pink-cheeked gentleman strolled into the office, faultlessly dressed except for a coat pocket that broke the contour of his well tailored person by sticking out in unsightly bulge. Forthwith a sheriff, stationed in the office, pounced upon this benevolent oldster, searched him thoroughly. The bulge turned out to be a large, red apple. The kindly gentleman turned out to be Herman W. Booth. Straightway he was marched to gaol...
...naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused to go whereupon Jones 'took her gently by the hand and led her to the door.' There she raised an outcry, tore her clothing...