Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minister for Propaganda Paul Joseph Goebbels next cocked his small snook to call the critical rejoinders of some British editors to General Goring "impudent and insulting." Following these leads from Goring and Goebbels, the Nazi Press almost unanimously cocked snooks at Britain last week, a surprising example being that set by the usually polite financial organ Berliner Börsen-Zeitung, which suddenly declared: "The British embezzled what Germany paid in Reparations...
...younger days the suave and sociable Manet was one of his best friends. Because of this friendship Degas, already an established artist, showed his pictures in the famed first exhibition of the Impressionists in 1874, was infuriated for the rest of his life when critics continued to call him an Impressionist. Painting outdoors gave him a cold in the head. He could not understand the experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas' famed sporting pictures were painted in his studio from rapid pencil sketches. Though one of the greatest of figure painters, he despised women. "Little...
...progress ... do not embarrass him by talking about him before others. . . . Going to school to criticize is fraught with danger. ... It should never be done on one's first visit. . . . No matter what our motives are for visiting the school, the canons of good taste should govern the call...
...burglars crawling through his bedroom window, sprang up to repulse the invaders, hurdled through the window. At a Los Angeles hospital surgeons took 40 stitches to close gashes in his left hand and both feet. His wife slept soundly through his nightmare and leap. His greatest regret: having to call off a projected fishing trip...
...that since Electric Bond & Share had never registered with SEC as the Utility Act required, the point at issue was not the constitutionality of the Act as a whole but that of its registration provisions. Electric Bond & Share, argued Attorney Jackson, was on an illegal spot. It could not call the constitutionality of the Act in question until it should be in a position to object to SEC's procedure. He prayed the Court either to order registration or to enjoin Bond & Share from interstate business...