Word: paragraphed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that his brother-in-law's caution prevented him from doing more for his important friends. One thing he could do: snub the Vatican, and he pointedly refrained from asking for an audience. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano as pointedly took note of the omission in a paragraph that was clearly a rebuke. But the Vatican can neither blockade Spain nor help her to recover Gibraltar...
Anti-Adlermann Sirs: With reference to Emil Adlermann's letter in [the Sept. 9] issue, p. 4, the "God Strafe England" paragraph stamps him as a Hun and true to type. May I ask him which God is to strafe England? The Christian God-the God of the universe-whom the Nazis have repudiated, or the mythical German gods which Hitler sometimes calls upon...
...Knowlson, chairman and president of Stewart-Warner Corp. is a sensitive man. For weeks he listened to politicians and labor leaders yelp that big business was holding back defense by refusing to cooperate with the Government, asking huge profits. Last week he got sore, lashed out a snappy (17-paragraph, onepage) letter of explanation to his employes. Said he: "There has been a lot of bunk about industry. . . . If your friends ask you what your company has done so far, you can tell them this: Your company has bid (on a competitive basis) on ten millions of dollars of Government...
...very convincing when he argues that Kipling's later years were his best, or that Kipling is altogether the great writer-or quite the sort of great writer-Mr. Shanks tries to make him out. Kipling's greatest legacy to letters Mr. Shanks dismisses in a brief paragraph: ". . . the enormous influence which he has exercised on the practice of journalism in all English-speaking countries." But that, as Kipling would say, is another story...
...statement "still the bills piled up" is untrue. The meaning of that paragraph (by innuendo) is that the change of name and reorganization were useless-that insolvency continues, which is entirely untrue. The hospital is on a cash basis, meeting all bills as presented. It is not "impoverished," but in fact is in very good financial condition...