Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated: "Miss Fields last year received a reputed $750,000 for being both undignified and vulgar." The word vulgar constitutes a grave injury to Miss Fields, her friends and public in England, where she is greatly beloved as your article states. I am a great admirer of TIME and know that it does not intend an affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager in England and as the producer of her pictures I appeal to your sense...
...impertinent reporter wrote impertinent George Bernard Shaw: "How long do you think you are going to live?'' Shaw replied: "I cannot tell you the exact date of my death. . . . You must be content to know that as I am in my eighty-second year, my number is up, and the cremation furnace may make an end of me at any moment, to the great relief of many worthy persons...
...been unable to exercise adequate influence upon public opinion in the United States, the great majority of newspaper correspondents who cover the White House are personally friendly to the Administration, and in general approve its objects, most of its methods, and the legislation adopted to accomplish its goal. I know that a number of the newspaper correspondents who write so-called 'unfriendly' articles are not personally opposed to the things they write about...
...previous writing, and does not want to go over the same ground in this, he does not follow a strict chronological narrative in Portraits of a Lifetime, but skips through time & space as his memory prompts him. The result is a little disconcerting to readers who do not know his previous volumes. At one moment the artist may be telling some antique anecdote about Renoir which drifts imperceptibly into comment about the political situation in present-day France, of which he strongly disapproves...
...Reunion's purpose should be to meet again those you used to know and to become acquainted with those you did not know," said Robert Tunis '13 when interviewed Friday about plans for the 25th reunion of his class this June...