Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party. Credit went to Mrs. Garner, whose husband, it was rumored, threatened to send her home to Texas so he would have an excuse (inability to get into a stiff shirt without her) to give all the parties a miss. Lady Lindsay somewhat rehabilitated herself with the Washington press by calling attention to the fact that the Lady Lindsay roses in her garden are described in the catalog as ''stout, very thorny and tending to ramble...
Month ago Pope Pius XII, alarmed by the apparent imminence of war, secretly sent peace appeals to the heads of European States, first step, perhaps, of a plan to mediate in frightened Europe. Although widely heralded in the world's press, the Vatican kept mum, issued no statement...
...Thetis, a sea nymph, was the mother of Achilles. * Ironically, while the British press fumed, the German press soft-pedaled criticism, offered condolences. Said the usually inflamed Volkischer Beobachter: "Events such as these unite the world above all political differences in a common hope and a common sorrow. Today we extend our warmest sympathy...
...press conference yesterday the President revealed that MacLeish's name will be included on a list to be sent to Congress for confirmation today...
Having carcened through the Wlash Sweezy storm, Harvard's chief executive has not wasted much time in dry dock before heading again for heavy weather. President Conant has just fired ten assistant professors. For the benefit of the national press services, let us hasten to add that he has not really "fired" them; he has converted their present contracts into terminating appointments. Of course he has a reason his personal interpretation of the Committee of Eight's report...