Word: demureness
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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...
Since it would take a unanimous Council vote to expel Russia, China's one vote alone would therefore block such action. Other nations with Council seats who are within gunshot of the Red Army were also likely to demur, notably Iran, Latvia and Turkey, to say nothing of the Scandinavian countries. Anti-Soviet zeal, in fact, could last week be directly gauged by the distance of nations from the Soviet border. British and French delegates, who generally stage-manage League proceedings, declared themselves ready to support expulsion provided other nations wanted...
...denounced Jews; 2) declared that the next war would be fought for their benefit; 3) rasped at Franklin Roosevelt for putting Felix Frankfurter on the U. S. Supreme Court; 4) predicted that the U. S. Army would "demur" if ordered by a leftist Administration "to execute orders which violate all American tradition"; 5) suggested that patrioteers be deputized and trained to handle "emergencies." Strongest Moseley statement: Fascism and Naziism are good "antitoxins" for the U. S.; "in fact, the finest type of Americanism can breed under their protection as they neutralize the efforts of the Communists...
Belisle, who was President of the CRIMSON in 1931, begins his letter by saying that "Harvard should accept without demur" the City Council's proposal for a separate municipality...