Word: blurtings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not he has a "style," Sherwood Anderson's style of writing-pondering, whittling, awkwardly echolalic-is all his own. No Swank is trademarked on every page. With the late great Chekhov, Anderson shares the faculty of the truthful blurt: "Almost always, when one of your friends gets kicked down stairs, you're glad. It is a nasty fact, but it is a truth." No matter how sarcastic he feels, he cannot be nasty about it: "There is too much of this bunk about a man having a mind because he has read the classics...
...fist of its crudest, rudest demagog-Huey Pierce ("King-fish") Long. By last week it appeared that his grip was gradually weakening. His prestige has been badly damaged at home because patronage from President Roosevelt has been going to anti-Long men, a situation which caused Senator Long to blurt out at a Milwaukee veterans' convention: "To hell with the Administration!" And over his head hangs the threat of Federal court action on charges of income tax evasion...
Bang went the heavy hand of Judge Bünger. He adjourned the Court before dull Marinus van der Lubbe could blurt out anything...
Evidence was principally a confession which Banker Mitchell had been forced to blurt out before a Senate committee (TIME, March 6); that last year he had bought all the stock back from Mrs. Mitchell at the price she paid,* and that his previous "sale" to her was "frankly for the purpose" of tax-avoidance...
...shame that Soviet women, enjoying the same status as men, should make themselves worse than men by using cosmetics!" she blurted. "The practice is grossly immoral. . . . The use of rouge, powder and lipstick is characteristic of a decadent Capitalist civilization. Russian women have the most beautiful complexions in the world, and, although those who use cosmetics are far in the minority, none of them need to do it!" Whether plain, elderly Beatrice Webb knew it or not, the Soviet Powder, Perfume, Rouge & Lipstick Trust is managed by the young, pretty, blonde wife of Premier Molotov (TIME, June 13), close friend...