Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grant's second Vice President, Henry Wilson,† "I, Daniel Smith Lamb," he wrote in his will, "object to burial or incineration and had rather after my death, and if practicable, before any embalming is done, that an autopsy be made upon my body by some competent person." The competent person whom he preferred is Dr. Aleś Hrdlička, who is a doctor of medicine as well as chief anthropologist for the Smithsonian Institution. "Dr. Lamb was too dear to me," said Dr. Hrdlička when the job was put up to him last week...
...Anne of Cleves, a plain German, no longer young. Henry had seen only Holbein's portrait of her. He married her largely to gain influential friends against France. Seeing her for the first time, he "disliked her person." He went through with the ceremony, set her aside...
...performance of duty . . . the Coast Guard must stop, board and examine vessels. Because yachtsmen and amateur motorboat men . . . are law-abiding citizens, yachts and motorboats used solely for pleasure . . . will not ordinarily be stopped . . . unless suspicious circumstances warrant such action. . . . No person is safe to be entrusted with the navigation of any vessel who does not occasionally take a glance around the horizon. Such a proper lookout will disclose . . . any Coast Guard boat . . . signaling you to stop. The Coast Guard boat will use her whistle or horn or a megaphone or visual signals ... to attract your attention...
...play itself would cause no exultation. But Ethel Barrymore acts the part of the jaded lovelady of Budapest who meets a sleek male counterpart. Ensues a mutual struggle against sentiment. Even in Budapest it is difficult not to care for the person with whom one has an affair, so after the child is born, a tremulous surrender to the exigencies and joys of affection occurs high in a Swiss chalet. This cycle of repression and catharsis is endowed with the mysteries of personality and feeling by Actress Barrymore, statuesquely assisted by Louis Calhern...
Support of another and more tangible sort is likely to be necessary. In order to make the rarer books in the collection generally available, it will be necessary to have a librarian in attendance at all times. The aid of such a person in helping patrons of the collection to find what they want and to care for the books would increase the desirability of his constant presence. As yet the funds for such a functionary have not been provided, but it is seldom that a good cause must cry unheard forever. It is to be hoped that the many...