Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scarcely a person left the academy, however, before he finally opened his mouth. He said it would be a long time before he would see the Philadelphians again, "and, incidentally, hear you," he added. He marveled that the newspapers should have divined that he would never return, since he had never had such a thought himself. He raised a fresh storm of applause by saying he and his men had, he believed, succeeded "as well as is humanly possible." He lamented that his Orchestra had not been sent to exhibit its excellence in Europe...
...York as the guest of honor at the 20th anniversary dinner of the United Press, a Scripps-Howard news association, Mr. Coolidge told the offending editors to their faces that when any newspaper adopts the editorial attitude on American foreign policy which Scripps-Howard has pursued, every informed person knows that it has fallen from the high estate which is our common heritage, and becoming no longer worthy of regard, is destined to defeat and failure. No American can profit by selling his own country for foreign favor...
...Proper Person...
...little child shall lead them-a little girl child, dressed in white linen and lifting her head, blonde and bobbed, high above the multitude. Strong men shall weep and cameras shall click, for Christianity in the person of Uldine Utley is coming to the United States Fleet. When the sinning tar cries out "What shall I do to be saved"? his prophet will reply in soft feminine tones, histrionically imitative of the sensuous Semple McPherson and-of Sharon Falconer...
...being pedantical merely, as Professor Kittredge has pointed out, because his work is uninteresting to the reader as an individual; and the fact that others may find the same matter intensely vital and alive does not remove the ignominy of its having failed to attract at least one person. Only occasionally comes there a man who contrives to build up a structure on the basis of carefully gathered data, perhaps arid enough, which immediately catches the fancy of both critics and public, and which is at once informative and a best seller. Such a book is Professor John Livingston Lowes...