Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning Mrs. Coolidge received a visitor in the person of Miss Marguerite Lindsley, forest ranger. She, clad in green riding habit, carrying a gun, informed Mrs. Coolidge that at the Montana Agricultural College she had belonged to Mrs. Coolidge's sorority, Pi Beta...
Provisions. In general the proposed laws provide penalties for foreigners (Italians naturalized in other lands are considered as for- eigners) and Italians who violate their provisions outside of Italy. For example, a person who commits a crime against the "personality" of the state, or counterfeits the seal of state, or falsifies Italian currency, or who "offends" on foreign territory the rights or polit- ical interests of Italy or of an Italian subject, is amenable to the statutes. Moreover, any foreigner tried and acquitted, or convicted and sentenced in the country in which the crime was committed may be retried...
...single set and only four actors. Accordingly Her First Affaire falls short of perfection by only one actor. In its cast of five is Aline MacMahon whose performances in Spread Eagle and Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon satisfied many a theatregoer that her tall, angular person is an almost ideal instrument for fateful, tragic roles. Here, however, she performs commendably as the knowing wife of a popular literatus who is beset by a flapper openly intent upon seducing him into being the victim of her first affaire. Wisely, the wife allows the little...
...PINAFOUR- Gilbert & Sullivan In the shriveled, feeble, almost blind person of Mrs. Carrie King, now cubby-holed in a dingy Man- hattan hotel, it would be hard to recognize the sprightly, buxom girl who was one of the early Buttercups in Gilbert & Sullivan history. That was in the '70s, when she was equipped with a cheery smile and a rare mezzo-soprano voice...
...Roughly, the outside limit of a healthy person's capacity...