Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time during His Majesty's 28 days abed a knife was applied, last week, to the royal person. Anesthesia preceding the operation was daringly carried out by Dr. Francis Shipway...
...Washington many an inquisitive glance has been cast toward the tiny, exquisite person of Mme. Katsuji Debuchi, wife of the newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. It is known that Mme. Dubuchi in her home wears the flowered silken kimonos of Japan's ancient mode, and that her hair is often coiled intricately in fashions ordained by a remote Japanese coiffeur. Certain insufficiently informed persons deduced there from that Mme. Debuchi was an old school Japanese woman, that she opposed the modern trend of her countrywomen toward emancipation...
...first service, open only to members of the University and Radcliffe College was given last evening, with a large number in attendance. Both services today will be open to the public with children if accompanied by an older person, invited to the afternoon meeting...
...beginning of the Petroleum Institute sessions there was talk of choosing for president a famed person outside the industry. General John Pershing, Charles Evans Hughes and President Coolidge were mentioned for the position. It was finally concluded, however, that in the present unsettled condition of the industry it would be better to forego the glory of a great name and select a man well acquainted with petroleum problems. So Edwin Benjamin Reeser, of Oklahoma, president of the Barnsdall Corp., was elected.* Mr. Reeser lives in Tulsa; whenever he visits his Manhattan offices he shakes the hand of every member...
...even more spectacular Biddle venture was consummated simultaneously with the Television launching. Always a sportsman, himself a boxer of the first order, Anthony Biddle last week inaugurated a return to the sporting traditions of a hundred years ago by buying, for his personal amusement, an interest in a professional fighter. The fighter was René De Vos, Belgian contender for the middleweight championship; sports - writers laughed merrily for days at the notion ot a respectable person engaging in the fight racket and of a decently dressed and wellspoken person undertaking to pat and rub a bloody pugilist between the rounds...