Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the teacher appointed by the Los Angeles Board of Education to instruct child cinema actors. She has learned to read short words. Her friends are the same she had a year ago, the offspring of her parents' neighbors. Careful of their daughter's dignity, the Temples insist that at all benefit shows she must have "top billing." This does not indicate that Shirley Temple has acquired stage conceit; she does not applaud her own picture on the screen. She still believes in Santa Claus. Apparently unaware that if she needs toys she can well afford...
...Author was presented in Manhattan in 1922, the management served notice that the drama was "not for morons." But average playgoers did not find Six Characters altogether incomprehensible. A father, mother, stepdaughter and son appear on a bare stage where some actors are about to rehearse a play, insist on working out their destinies as they were conceived in the mind of a playwright who did not get around to setting them down on paper...
...charge and who subsequently dropped it? Why do you fail to mention that you got the story out of Upton Sinclair's autobiography, and that you could not have got it anywhere if Upton Sinclair had not told it? I really think that 1 shall have to insist that you shall publish the paragraphs from which you took that story...
...around a dairy barn. I know the smart of a cow's tail swished in your eye on a hot summer night, and the sound of greedy hogs in a trough of sour milk. . . . I know the unholy feel of the business at the bottom. Still, we must insist that anything as essential to human life as milk is holy...
Well, it's rather hard on us naive Americans to feel the total abandonment we are left in, to witness the diplomatic sleights of hand of the British, our professed friend. But Uncle Sam, go the British one better--insist upon equality of armaments and demand moreover a tri-party security agreement: that the nation committing aggression will have the other two on its neck to keep the peace. Then watch England wince. Put the burden of either success or failure of the conference on her head and see what happens...