Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unlike skinny Mr. Howe and skinny Mr. Mclntyre, he is a big, fat-jowled fellow, of the type that appeals to Postmaster General Farley. His newspaper experience was largely gained as an Associated Pressman in Washington. His business now is to jolly the Press along, see that the "boys" obey the White House rules on quoting and not quoting the President, bark out his angry displeasure at those who do not play his game. For those who dance to his piping he frequently finds good jobs as pressagents in various Government bureaus. He is also given credit for conceiving...
...Emolument of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England, the Most Rev. Dr. Cosmo Gordon Lang for his reading of the Angelican service "to love, cherish and obey...
...regrettable that secondary education is in in the saddle to such an extent that the institutions of higher learning, which really should be the dictators, are now forced to follow the schools and agree to their ideas. The excuse of the colleges seems only to be that they must obey the schools now, in order that later, when they are allied with them they may be able to stiffen the requirements. Such an answer to as important a problem as this is most unsatisfactory. For is it not conceivable that the eventual result may be that the schools will gradually...
...have just read your report on convalescing Philippine Leader Manuel Quezon in a Johns Hopkins Hospital bed, and his quandary as to which physician to obey when he wanted a drink [TIME, Nov. 12]. Señor Quezon had no qualms about what kind of food he wanted when well enough to eat. He consulted no doctor but his own instinct, and ordered his private cook to prepare for him the Spanish puchero-that pot which holds life's essentials for rich and poor alike, emblematic of the national well-being of a healthy people. A cabalistic piece...
...Then I reached the United States, and here my physicians tell me: 'Don't drink any wines and beers at all. Whiskey is the only proper drink.' So now, if I want a drink, all I have to do is to decide which physician I will obey...