Word: persons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief manifestation of this illness, he said, is "misrepresentation of truth." The afflicted person usually gains people's confidence by conveying a good impression, but then the victim lets them down completely, he continued. This type ence and thus cannot be cured...
...discovered slouching on a bench, snoring. It is the snore of authority, rich with phlegm and idiosyncrasy, and within a few minutes after it dwindles into wakefulness there is no question that things will be all right. The lump of course is Sir John Falstaff, in the considerably-augmented person of Daniel Seltzer, and the effervescent Mr. Seltzer is engaged in one of the most amazing tours de force ever perpetrated upon the risibilities of the Harvard community. He shows us an entirely fabulous creature, soaring in the Empyrean of obesity and insolence; he totters and grumbles with a rambunctious...
...months ago. This excerpt, titled "Afternoon in Formia," concerns a ruse devised by two rakes giro and Lorenzo, to acquire bank funds that do not belong to them, and also, a devilish trick that Giro plays on Lorenzo, in which the latter, in an effort to demonstrate that a person consumed by pity blinds himself to reality, receives, for his services, not the roses that he anticipates, but rather, an unfortunate pelting of old artichokes and rotting lettuce heads...
...PERSON FROM ENGLAND, AND OTHER TRAVELERS TO TURKESTAN (314 pp.)-Fitzroy Maclean-Harper...
...scholar. Arriving in Bokhara with its Tower of Death, verminous dungeons and treacherous Emir, Wolff grandly ordered that the British prisoners be handed over to him. "How extraordinary," exclaimed the Emir. "I have 200,000 Persian slaves here-nobody cares for them; and on account of two Englishmen, a person comes from England and single-handedly demands their release." Wolff was jolted to discover that the two officers had already been executed, and was lucky to escape Bokhara with his own head still on his shoulders...