Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers...
If any Canadian cast an envious eye across the border, he had a grim consolation, knowing that it would not be long before the costs of defense would reduce the U. S. standard of living. For the Canadians were facing one of the hard realities of life, that a people...
The fifth wife of the late, oft-wedded DeWolf Hopper, Hedda was born Elda Furry near Altoona, Pa., changed her first name as well as her last after marrying Hopper, partly to distinguish herself from her predecessors (Ella, Ida. Edna and Nella), partly to comply with the instructions of a...
Famed for her tough talk, she boasts, "You can't fool this old bag." To secretarie's of bigwigs who have misled her she shouts: "You tell your boss Hedda Hopper says he's the biggest son, of a - in town." Her working methods are impulsive. Confronting...
Manhattan to talk at the annual dinner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. There he gave a powerful sermon about the facts of contemporary life. He told off the experts of Information Please for not knowing who does what on the Defense Commission; praised the new kind of "epic...