Word: candor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With him works loud, flashy Publicityman Bert Nevins. Says Nevins with simple candor: "Doughnuts lend themselves readily to screwy publicity...
...clinch a literary judgment in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. The literary situation which Critic DeVoto found in the East was calculated to exacerbate his deepest instincts, habits of thought and affection. With a loud roar of rage, the felicity of phrasing and invaluable candor of a common scold, he immediately started to set things to rights...
...Great Debate." But Session II of the 76th Congress went through the motions in a curious air of unreality: the Great Debate didn't come off; the President talked boldly, the Senate debated boldly, on all the secondary points-nowhere could the press or the public find candor, willingness to face or seek facts. The embargo was repealed, Congress went home, Mr. Roosevelt went to Warm Springs-in an atmosphere of somnolent fantasy that seemed almost grotesquely irrelevant in a world...
...many newspapers letters denounced the President and Presidential candidates for lack of candor about...
...note ending to spoil a picture which has in its background Dennie Moore as a gossipy, husband-hunting, goo-goo-eyed mail-order clerk. Cinemactress Moore is mistress of fluttery, nasal, dime-store Manhattanese. It is worth sitting twice through the picture to see her exhibition of modesty conquering candor as she twitters: "I'm going to the washroom-pardon my frankness...