Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tutor their children they employ a person called Prince de Vigni, "last surviving member of the royal family of Silesia." Tutor de Vigni teaches the children four hours daily, reports them brighter and quicker than other children. Summer and winter they wear only bathing suits...
There is no extra-curricular activity at Harvard which prepares a man of the particular task of the Ivy Orator. In the Lampoon there is a chance to be funny on paper. In the Debating Council there is a chance to be oratorical in person but nowhores are the two combined...
...pattern of their lives is not, however, separated from the body of the book, nor is it the whole book. In the person of Vergil Harris. I find examplified a manner of handling character that has now come to be a fashion. Vergil has the habit of confusing time, of imagining himself back in his boyhood, of suffering again the persecutions of boyhood playmates. This may be a thoroughly accurate way of portraying weak characters. It is, at any rate, a favorite one with modern novelists: Joyce has used it. Whole books have been written by his imitators (Mr. Aiken...
...proof room and the loud speaker in the other, any word spoken to the eat will be reproduced in electrical impulses by the cat's ear and transmitted to the speaker. Not only will the resultant words be recognizable, but it is possible to recognize the voice of the person who spoke them...
...Club Aluminum pots and paid for by the company. After a successful meal the salesmen took orders. But this merchandising scheme was expensive. Depression knocked early at the Club's doors, and by 1930 a stockholders' protective committee had turned the company over to a new president in the person of black-haired energetic Herbert John Taylor, vice president of Jewel...