Word: demure
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many commentators on the political scene are taking the stand that the G.O.P. needs to "liberalize" . . . I demur. What the country really needs is . . . an honest-to-goodness opposition party...
Next day De Gaulle announced his decision: the R.P.F. would put up a fight in all French towns of any size. With some misgivings but without demur his committee accepted the decision. Perhaps De Gaulle, who had been right so many times in the past, would be right again...
Janie's father (Edward Arnold), who publishes the town paper, writes a blast about youth's pitfalls, but while his wife (Ann Harding) and his best friend (Robert Benchley) demur, the mote in his own eye grows to beam size. Janie, one night when the family is out, arranges to vibrate with Pvt. Lawrence in the privacy of her home. Thanks to Scooper, who is mad with jealousy, and to her little sister Elspeth (Clare Foley) who combines the less endearing features of a stool pigeon, a blackmailer and the Marquis de Sade, they get no privacy...
Having often expressed my appreciation of TIME as an achievement in reporting, may I demur to the increasing use of your news columns as a vehicle of editorial opinion? Your lines on Vice President Wallace in the issue of Nov. 30 were roughneck journalism, unworthy of your virtues. I believe in criticism, but I also believe in courtesy. Words should be used to heal wounds, not to make them. Give us the facts, and let us draw our own conclusions...