Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coming Towards You stands out like a billboard among current books of verse. It has its author's excitement to proclaim, and it proclaims it in images that crash all the gates of its reader's senses. As an eye-catcher, it rates 100; as an eye-opener, perhaps five...
...bookshops in both towns proclaim in gigantic letters across their windows that no one should miss reading Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came, "a book about indestructible India." No other books seemed to be advertised. Now this story is written in a strongly anti-British vein. I enjoyed reading it very much, but twice I remember hurling it to the ground with rage at its prejudice, injustice and ignorance. Goebbels is running this India racket, I am certain of it. Why should at least three questions about India be asked at every one of Duff's lectures...
...flaunting of superlatives, Warner Brothers carry on their heroic tradition of celluloid crusades. Their latest contribution to popular enlightenment is an epic on venereal disease, "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet." Apparently the moguls of moviedom have resolved that if club-women can take Wassermann tests, the movies can proclaim the existence of such a thing as syphilis...
...outspoken attack upon Germany Mr. Cromwell has placed the State Department in a most embarrassing position; many hearers will take Cromwell's outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut one's eyes and thus seek to avoid the horrid sight of the bloody and seething world revolution which threatens to overwhelm...
...world what Germany expects of the press in neutral countries. Said he: "Even in neutral States the precepts of freedom of opinion must not be misused ... to insult the warring powers. ..." "It is not enough," cried Dr. Göebbels, "for the government of a neutral country to proclaim its neutral attitude . . . while public opinion has the freedom to insult! . . ." Meanwhile, German newspapers bristled with angry editorials attacking the Swiss press, which had referred to Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland as countries "occupied by Germany." Dr. Göebbels' editors reminded Switzerland that it was a small country and would...