Word: pretends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There have appeared in some recent issues of your publication things that make us suspect you of leaning toward the Communist's side in government. . . . I believe you pretend to independence and declare yourself on no side. But every once in a while there breaks out in some of your articles things that show rather too clearly that, either in heart or through control, you lean toward the New Deal side...
...week. In 1890 she went to San Francisco, was hired by the Examiner. She had a theory that "a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women." One of the first things she did was to pretend to faint on the street. Taken to a hospital in a hearse, she investigated the emergency ward from the inside, wrote an expose which caused a thumping scandal, cost most of the hospital staff their jobs, resulted in ambulance service...
...monopoly-baiting. Even Senator Borah's cloquence as a standard-bearer could not inflate the issue to proportions comparable to existing ones. Republicans have been charge with inability to outline a so-called "constructive program", and some would put an attack on monopolies in that category. But if Republicans pretend to be realists, and at the same time wish to quibble over terminology, they have a reply. Nothing could be more constructive than an attempt to replace administrative machinery which creates a fool's paradise for farmers, a staggering debt for coming generations, and a government running at a loss...
...dance in the mud, roared, "Death to the Italians!" and finally became so threatening that some had to be driven with bayonets off the steps of the Throne. Ethiopian officers leaped about with such prized weapons as rifles, a favorite routine being to drop to the ground, pretend to fire, then leap up with a whoop. Finally, excited Dedjazmatch (General) Bayenna led a shrieking cavalry charge past the Throne and wheeled about to cry, "Emperor, fear not the politics of the outer world! The Gods are with...
...Ticknor, Longfellow and Lowell" Bliss Perry recalls an uncomfortable feeling that the public was getting the impression that Harvard was landing a bigger fish than it had actually caught. Barrett Wendell, who had complained about the abuse of Presidential power in making the appointment, was too honest to pretend to welcome Perry to Harvard. At their first meeting afterward Wendell launched into an attack on Byron's "Vision of Judgment", famous parody of Southey's culogy of King George Third, and upheld Southey's poem against Byron's. Perry writes, "..."I do not usually care for a literary debate while...