Word: cues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even a king as young as Leopold III could not miss that cue. Next day the mob was saying that His Majesty had sent M. Jaspar packing and M. Jaspar was saying that he had voluntarily returned the royal mandate because he could not get M. Francqui into his Cabinet...
True that William Haines Lytle's famed "Antony to Cleopatra" begins "I am dying, Egypt, dying!" But Soldier-Poet Lytle (1826-1863) presumably took his cue from Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Sc. 15, which contains the line. More about General Lytle will appear in the Sept. 17 issue of LETTERS, a new fortnightly published by TIME, Inc. For details about LETTERS...
...full impact of human misery until the following autumn and winter. Recalling the volunteer assistance which South Dakota gave Arkansas in those terrible times, Editor W. T. Sitlington of the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat called upon the farmers of his State to repay a "mercy debt." Taking the cue, Governor J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas declared : "Gratitude calls upon the people of Arkansas who are able to do so, to show their appreciation and to show that they never forget a friend." Last week 20 carloads of hay, cotton seed meal and cake and other livestock food rolled...
...German Press caught Dr. Schacht's cue and straightway began to howl against the exclusion of the Dawes and Young loans from the agreement and in favor of stopping the 'immoral" payments entirely after July...
...attracted the coat-room habitues to the Senate Chamber and stilled the small talk in the galleries, Sonator Borah, swerving from a discussion of policy concerning the delegation of tariff powers to the President, today became the embattled defender of the Ship of State and the Constitution. Taking his cue from Oliver Wendell Holmes' stirring plea to save the Constitution's sea-going namesake from being ignominiously scuttled, the Senator from Idaho invoked all the sentimental balderdash at his command to keep the leaky old frigate and its battery of muzzle-loaders in the first line of the battle squadron...