Word: hearsay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter struggle has raged between Bolivia and Paraguay off & on for 50 years. Nothing will swerve the average South American from his belief, founded on pure but insistent hearsay, that "The whole thing is a struggle between the United States which has always backed Bolivia and Great Britain which has always helped Paraguay...
...years the vice president in charge of the foreign department of one of the largest Wall Street banks, then president of a smaller bank, then a Wall Street in vestment counsel, and who now represents himself to be the intimate adviser of Senator Thomas? This is not hearsay. This man has stated not once but several times that not only is he Senator Thomas's ad viser, but that he helps the good Senator to write many of his letters and speeches. Perhaps, he has no right to make any such statement. ... If, on the other hand...
...WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE ONE OF WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED STOP WAS NEVER ORDERED ARRESTED STOP THERE WAS NO BALCONY AND I WAS IN A ROOM SEVEN STORIES FROM THE GROUND WITH AN IRON RAILING EXTENDING TO MY CHEST HEIGHT STOP YOUR LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE ACCEPTED HEARSAY EVIDENCE WHEN HE WIRED YOU I COMMITTED A NUISANCE STOP I WAS CLOTHED HAD NO BLANKET AROUND ME AND DID NOT COMMIT ANY NUISANCE EXCEPT YELL TO THE CROWD BELOW IN A CHIDING MANNER STOP...
...these rules open up the game 30,000 spectators saw for themselves last week when the Chicago Bears played the New York Giants in Chicago's Wrigley Field for the national professional championship. They also saw first hand what many of them had only known about from hearsay before-that the best professional football, given less to grandstand theatricals and more to the theatricals of machine-precision team play, can be more exciting, more sincerely spectacular than the best of college games. Thirty-five forward passes were thrown, 20 completed. With perfect protection from his backfield, the Giants...
...make sure he "wouldn't say nuttin outa line," Durante had prepared his speech in advance. Excerpt: "I simply drove into the subject and when it comes to droving into a subject a Durante admits no peers. I'm not talkin' at this luncheon from hearsay or hunger, but because I was asked to talk. While drovin' and delvin' into de subject of Prohibition, I digs up plenty of data- not disa and dat-a-but data, data. And what do I find out, I'm askin' you? I finds out that...