Word: omit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Benito Mussolini is piqued, so is the whole Italian press. Last week Il Duce's annoyance at the good show Democracy was putting on in Paris caused many Italian papers to omit accounts of the British royal visit, provoked one to attribute this apocryphal quote to Queen Elizabeth: "I haven't seen anything but the horses of our guards...
...Lawyer Rice rose to make his opening remarks, Judge Caffey interrupted: "May I inject the remark that I am most helped by statements which omit the trees and show me the forest...
...ministerial declaration-the first in many years to omit mention of the League of Nations-was not even debated, an unprecedented abstention from the time-honored French pastime of heckling every Premier. Apparently the Deputies and Senators believed Edouard Daladier when he told them that French institutions were menaced by nationwide strikes as grave as those in Italy in 1922-to which the answer was Italian Fascism. The moderate Premier, with his reputation for courage and firmness, quietly threw such a scare into even the Communists that their leaders last week began offering cooperation in the settlement of sit-down...
...omit any mention of the Harvard Russian Circle? Surely there is some news-value in the fact that he spoke under the auspices of the Harvard Russian Circle, a non-political organization for the study and appreciation of Russian history and culture. I should think that you might even consider newsworthy the fact that there are at Harvard enough people with a non-political interest in Russia to form such a club. Sincerely yours, Jeffrey Fuller '38, President, The Harvard Russian Circle...
...While telling Congress last January 5 how much he wanted to balance the budget, Franklin Roosevelt found it advisable to omit for later discussion two items which had considerable bearing on the subject. One was an enlarged Navy program. The other was Relief...