Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight of these stories at once will be a little too much, but there is no rule that you must read them all at a sitting. And if you have read one, you are more than likely to come back and read another provided you are the sort of person who ought to be reading them in the first place...
...hockey team inaugurated its 1929 season by crushing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sextet under a 9 to 1 score at the new Boston Garden last night. The contest was dull in the extreme brightened only at rare moments by brilliant dashes the length of the ice in the person of J. B. Garrison...
...same dread and peculiar disease, haemophilia,* which afflicted the Tsarevitch Alexis, son and heir of Tsar Nicholas the Last. The Tsaritsa and the Tsar are well known to have fallen a prey to the notorious "Black Monk" and hypnotist Gregory Rasputin, whom they devoutly believed to be the only person capable of curing the Tsarevitch. In Spain rumors have long been irresponsibly current that Queen Victoria Eugenie has employed an obscure Catalonian doctor to attend the Infante Don Alfonso...
Beyond that, he distinguished himself at West Point by slovenliness of person, mediocrity of scholarship, hatred of firearms, and a certain girlish squeamishness of profanity and rough jokes. His femininity was emphasized by a callow appearance-indeed, during leisure hours of the Mexican War, Grant took the part, in amateur theatricals, of Desdemona, no less...
...Significance. Though differing in detail from The Book of Daniel Drew and Warshow's Jay Gould, Jubilee Jim completes the fascinating picture of those two crooked wizards in relation to their lesser but indispensable associate. Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics...