Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard Pennsylvania's Republican Robert Fleming Rich shout during the debate preceding passage of the $125,086,690 Interior Department Appropriation Bill: "That man [Franklin Delano Roosevelt] does not know what he is doing . . . never worked a day in his life . . . could not run any kind of business...
Some people think that ragtime started with Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band. Others, better informed, know that when Berlin's song appeared (1911) ragtime had long since passed its peak...
...such impertinences, Stokowski firmly refused an answer. "I never talk about personal things," he said. Swedish Author Dr. Axel Munthe was more informative. Greta had called at his Capri home for tea that very afternoon. Accompanying her, he said, had been "a gentleman named Stokowski, whom I do not know, but who looked like a Pole...
Dangerous to Know (Paramount) is a glowering melodrama with artless plot, artful production. Akim Tamiroff, alumnus of the Moscow Art Theatre, has had 60-odd Hollywood roles, nearly all of them brooding and villainous, most of them whiskery. In this picture he is a thin-mustached, esthetic bigwig racketeer who tunes his moods to Tchaikovsky or Wagner, keeps a slinky-eyed hostess (Anna May Wong), is dangerous to know because he eliminates occasional associates with sad-eyed sadism. With his town's financial and civic agencies pretty well in thrall he makes the social error of trying to snare...
...Governments that have no fixed standards of morality, and consequently no moral sense, can scarcely settle the question of war on moral grounds for Christians, . . . who see and know the injustice of practically all wars in our modern pagan world. There is the very practical question for informed Christians who acknowledge the supreme dominion of God. . . . WILL SUCH CHRISTIANS IN OUR COUNTRY FORM A MIGHTY LEAGUE OF CONSCIENTIOUS NON-COMBATANTS...