Word: contradicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imagine the pain you have caused me, my wife and the members of my family and the multitudes of my friends all over the world with this base story of my divorce. I must ask you, Sir to contradict and apologize for the statements you have made in a very prominent place in the Newsmagazine in your next issue and to send me a copy containing the apology and explanation to the following address: 6908 North Ashland Ave., Chicago, Ill., c/o Mr. Eddie Young, who is my secretary and where I expect to arrive at the end of August...
...Farrell failed to contradict this interesting and plausible theory. German makers were equally discreet, equally silent. But the suspicion grew that in his latest pilgrimage abroad, Mr. Farrell had played a new role. He had been the reverse of a salesman. For once, he had studied, not how to sell more steel in European markets, but how to export less steel, more wisely...
Thus, parenthood-"the greatest profession on earth"-as sharp critics see it. If these critics had visited the Parents' Exposition at the Grand Central Palace in Manhattan last week, they would have found little to contradict their previous observations. Exhibitions of groceries, toys, corrective literature, propaganda were there aplenty. Parents said: "Don't touch that;" and children clamored for ice cream. Then there arose a tiff between eminent parents; the officials of the Parents' Exposition, at the suggestion of New York Superintendent of Schools William J. O'Shea, refused to allow the American Birth Control League...
Since these remarks flatly contradict the maxim of Mussolini: "'Nothing outside the State! Nothing against the State!" the Vatican news organ, Osservatore Romano, sought next day to soften the Pope's rebuke to Mussolini. The editor ingeniously declared that President Coolidge and Premier Mussolini both "are agreed on the principle of the pre-eminence of spiritual things." From Mr. Coolidge was quoted: "Religion is necessary"; but the nearest similar remark which could be quoted from Mussolini was of very different purport: "Youth must be brave, honest and upright...
...least knowledge of the real state of the world affairs today, can possibly be convinced, though he may perhaps be bewildered, by arguments like these, stated by Felix Cohen; because no man of common sense can live among his follow-creatures for a day without seeing innumerable facts which contradict...