Word: insists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precepts. Here is a plenty of theory but no rules of thumb. Many a bewildered Babbitt might profit by one or another of these Gallic apothegms. For example: "I love you" should never sound like a call for help. . . . And don't bother to tell me that you insist on being loved for what you are. You are worth more than that." No Columbus, Author Géraldy is more a maker of neat maps. The cartography of these disputed regions is still vague; such map-making fills a need. Without telling you anything new, he often makes...
This reference was to the famed Twelve Orders "on women's immodest fashion of dress" issued by authority of Pope Pius XI some months ago to higher Catholic clergy throughout the world. Order No. 1 declares that "the parish priest . . . should insist, argue, exhort and command that feminine garb be based on modesty and that their ornament be a defense of virtue." Order No. 5 states that "headmistresses and teachers must not receive in their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception for the mothers of their pupils." Order...
...Berlin the chastened Prime Minister was expected, after recovering his aplomb, to insist upon passing the Finance Ministry on to someone else...
Other excerpts: "I must insist that I prefer to take profits and buy on recessions. ... P. S. Tell the dark-haired damsel to hold on to my portfolio. ... I š am sorry . . . that you are not a prophet of the first grade...
...home Senator Caraway, Chairman of the Lobby Committee and a Dry Methodist, who has ruthlessly heckled all manner of witnesses before his committee on their private and political affairs, did a remarkable about-face on Bishop Cannon's case. Declared Senator Caraway: "I see no occasion to insist on the Bishop testifying. The investigation is aimed at lobbying and not political matters. As he came at his own request, if he did not care to answer questions, he should be excused." Later Senator Caraway, shamefaced, left-about-faced: "I do not sustain Bishop Cannon for snapping his fingers...