Word: exclaims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passos saw famine and typhus in the Near East, talked over Bolshevik atrocities with Russian refugees, Turkish atrocities with Greeks and Armenians, English duplicity with Arabs. In Spain he was startled to hear a mountain peasant exclaim, "America is the world of the future." In Arabia a native told him owlishly that the English "were united and used their guns only to shoot strangers, while the Arabs were always squabbling among themselves and were very nice to strangers." Hating high-flown sentiments in all forms (he read Juvenal on the way to Damascus, did not like it because "I smell...
Late last night a large crowd gathered to observe a "For Sale" sign hung on the building's probosels. Lampoon editors trailed out sorrowfully, carrying their engraved steins. "What mugs," an onlooker was heard to exclaim...
...much more cheaply by means of bribes. Rumors that Shantung's Han recently conferred in Tsinan with Japanese Lieut.-General Kenji Doihara, Tokyo's ablest bribe artist in dealing with Chinese, were taken seriously enough at Nanking, China's capital, for a government spokesman to angrily exclaim last week: "If Doihara came there he ought to have been locked up in jail...
...such anomalies as that swank Rome dance bands are still being asked by Italian socialites to play The Sidewalks of New York. On the sidewalks of Dublin last week Mr. Smith remarked to reporters how calm the polling seemed, came away from a big de Valera political rally to exclaim: "It was almost as unanimous as a Tammany meeting...
...which made New Jersey's Hoffman exclaim: "It's bad enough to be a Republican without having to be known as a poet...