Word: directness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noyes, an authorization to be printed above this story substantially thus: "An old friend of many years standing has asked permission to paint a portrait of me in words. To him I said 'yes.' (signed') Wallis Simpson." From the Duke of Windsor last week came no direct repudiation to Publisher Noyes, who still stoutly maintained that Edward VIII had told him that he, the King, was going to act as his own press officer, had given Mr. Noyes his private telephone number, had repeatedly responded with information when Noyes rang this number during the crisis...
...first place, it was a gratifying exhibition that the joint editorial printed by the college dailies of the suggested league members had been accorded official recognition. And what is more to the point this official recognition had in turn been the direct result of "very frank and extended conversations" on a subject which had too long been taboo...
...will be enlarged by six executive assistants, with "a passion for anonymity"; from top to bottom federal personnel will go under civil service. All these suggestions tend to center power in the President, as the channels of authority to the twelve departments will be cleared of every obstacle and direct responsibility to the White House emphasized. To counteract this tendency, Mr. Roosevelt proposes that Congress make the executive accountable by an independent audit of his financial transactions...
Soothed Dr. Little, one of whose major jobs is to direct the American Society for the Control of Cancer: "We know so little about how cancer is inherited that there is no cause for fear and dread, and there is no basis for predictions concerning inheritance of cancer in any individual case...
...stage. An exponent of the feather-touch, as the timid, pale grey little Parisian father, his gentle intonations and delicate gestures seem to indicate that he is afraid that grosser activity might jar him loose from the stage and send him floating up in the flies. In direct contrast to Sir Cedric's placidity is Irene Browne's portrayal of Mme Delbar, his violent, redheaded wife...