Word: presse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Austen cannot or will not stoop to "talk American." He will not permit his good intentions to be paraded stark naked before anybody. Therefore when the British press quoted Sir Esme as saying that "before long" something will be done about naval limitation, Sir Austen speared the Ambassador with a statement as sharp and chill as an icicle: "There has been no change in the situation...
...ungracious way of saying "in English" what Sir Esme had warmly and frankly said "in American." The Foreign Secretary actually confirmed the Ambassador's assertion that "a further effort will be made," but he did it so ungraciously that he seemed to repudiate him. Naturally the British opposition Press headlined "Sir Esme Repudiated!" and the Labor Daily Herald seized the chance to moan...
Statement. Through the Associated Press and the United Press both heard last week via underground grapevine that King Alfonso had broken with General Primo de Rivera, the dictator had just rapped out the following statement to correspondents in Madrid...
...last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...
...dark, tense Deems Taylor, who wrote the music. He was, of course, besieged and besought by questioners, because after the Henchman's premiere in 1927 the Metropolitan commissioned Native Taylor to write another native opera. What about that other opera? asked Deems Taylor's friends and the press...