"personals" are a vital feature of trade papers.
"Walking-Stick Papers"
Robert Cortes Holliday
But old people, I have noticed, those whose days are numbered, whose autumnal friends are fast falling, as if leaf by leaf from the creaking tree, those regularly turn to the obituary column, which, doubtless, is filled with what are "personals" for them.
"Walking-Stick Papers"
Robert Cortes Holliday
"The other things weren't funny, just poor constructions and general flatness, personals that were too personal, you know, and that sort of thing.
"The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted"
Katharine Ellis Barrett