Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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First, according to the proprietor, a person with the mien of a policeman entered Cordials and Beverages carrying a copy of TIME, pointed accusingly to the story of the shop's booze-selling, demanded $75 hush money, received...
...five years had a vacancy occurred among the associate justices of the Supreme Court. When Joseph McKenna left the bench in 1925, to die the next year, President Coolidge made his single Supreme Court appointment in the person of Harlan Fiske Stone, now the youngest Justice (aged 57). President Harding, in less than two years, named a chief justice, three associate justices. Insurance actuaries, surveying the present court membership (average age, 69), would predict that President Hoover would have at least as many Supreme appointments to make during his term...
...like most other human enterprises, has its makers, sellers, buyers and commentators. Prominent living makers of art-Matisse, Picasso, Zuloaga, Augustus John, Rockwell Kent-are known at least by name to multitudes of laymen. And almost every literate person has heard of Sir Joseph Duveen. He is, however, neither an artist nor a critic, as laymen have been known to wager. He is, of course, the supersalesman and the most famed name in contemporary art. Extensive buyers of art-Andrew Mellon, Jules Semon Bache, John Ringling-are widely recognized as such...
...friend of Manhattan's Mayor Walker: "First they send Sharkey to his corner for fouling my boy, and then they take the fight away and give it to Sharkey. What am I up against? . . ." Said Referee Magnolia: "If Johnston makes any of his accusations to me in person I'll hit him. Scott is the yellowest bum I ever saw. For 10? I'd take him into any cellar and give him a licking myself...
...really cannot take the letter seriously," declared Mr. Forbes, "since it contained nothing that could be actually construed as a threat of violence. I suppose it came from some person of unsound mind who read about the purchase of the painting by the Museum and resented that so much money should be spent on anyone or anything but himself. I merely turned it over to the Harvard police to clear myself of any responsibility in the matter. I do not think that anyone in their right mind could resent the legitimate purchase of a priceless work...