Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naturally Comrade Litvinov could not resist a temptation to cry the equivalent of "Copy cat!" last week, a most unwise thing to do because the Soviet Government is now making every effort to get itself recognized by President Hoover. "I scarcely know,'' said Litvinov scathingly, "whether Mr. Gibson spoke in support of my plan or in spite...
...Baldwin. It is not his fault that he is a Worcestershire man ? after all Shakespeare came very near being a Worcestershire man, but his mother slipped across into Warwickshire to give the boy a chance. How hard on me it is to make a speech when I know the Prime Minister would far rather I told him a detective story...
...Number One? [looking at Mr. Baldwin] Yes, he's here. He is in great danger. They want to know if he is carrying a gun ? they say it is the most astounding case the Yard has ever had and had to call me in to help them...
Disarmed, Marion has accepted him, and he is pleased. He writes: "Yesterday I drove my car down a street of our town I had never been on before. I did not know the street was there. Men hailed me. Women and children were sitting on doorsteps. 'It is our editor.' 'Well, you have been a long time getting down here...
...described as a patient communism, and it is reflected in his art. For him, art is a proletariat function, growing out of the hot little huts of peons, expressing their lives. "If I try to speak of my painting," he wrote last winter in Creative Art, "I do not know how to do it unless I speak of the life of these comrades of mine." His subjects are in the panorama of Mexican modes and mores. His frescoes are devoted to the city and country laborer, miner, country school teacher, market place, burial, festival, harvest, battle. Satirically bent...