Word: firmest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...firmest tones of the evening he asserted that under those circumstances German occupation of Iceland was something the U.S. could not permit. None of the seven challenged that statement. And none of them challenged his right as Commander in Chief to act without consulting Congress...
...firmest representatives of the New Deal are not Roosevelt or the other conspicuous 'New Deal politicians,' but the younger group of administrators, experts, technicians, bureaucrats, who have been finding places throughout the state apparatus: not merely those who specialize in political technique, in writing up laws with concealed 'jokers,' in handing Roosevelt a dramatic new idea, but also those who are doing the actual running of the extending government enterprises: in short, managers. These men include some of the clearest-headed of all managers to be found in any country. They are confident and aggressive. Though...
...Loudest, firmest protester was Boston's eight-month-old Society for Sanity in Art (youngest branch of Chicago's famed organization of similar name), which found an opportunity for its maiden crusade. Last week, from the black-upholstered fastness of her Victorian apartment, the Society's old-maid president, Margaret Fitzhugh Browne, said: "[The Picasso show] is an exhibition of crazy stuff. People who went to the show flocked to join the Society for Sanity in Art." She affirmed the Society's answer to Picasso's challenge: a rival exhibition demonstrating sane...
...sore spot that had better be left untouched," snarled vitriolic Editor Virginio Gayda last week in Rome's semiofficial Giornale d'ltalia. The sore spot was on the Italian economic body, but ignoring Italian wincings, Great Britain proceeded to prod it. Despite an Italian protest "in firmest language," 13 Italian colliers bound for home with 100,000 tons of German coal had been stopped, after due warning that the shipments must cease, by British warships as they sailed from Rotterdam. They had been escorted through the Channel mine fields to The Downs, there to await the pleasure...
...excuse and occasion for the things he particularly wants to talk about. Scattered in short (but stiff) doses throughout the narrative, they are spoken by a Mr. Propter, the straightest and maturest straight man Mr. Huxley has ever permitted himself. As he speaks them, they are some of the firmest, most beautifully articulate essays Huxley has ever written...