personal history

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The personal history between Blanche and Trump came up repeatedly during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, with Senator Jack Reed comparing him at one point to a mafia adviser.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

Each personal history is sketched with a revealing touch: Robbie, returned from war, had “loitered, not entirely fruitlessly, on the fringes of the London literary world, until coming to Honor via a family connection.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

It was a piece of personal history, perhaps one with generational memories.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Doesn’t she have a kind of tangled personal history and reasons not to maybe want to have this American oversight?

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026

She ran a hand along the few feet of personal history, her brief chronicle of taste.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan