Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still trying to figure "Walter Winchell" Hyde's remark of last issue. Will anyone getting the essence of it please contact...
...breath turning to vapor in the raw winter wind, Franklin Roosevelt then delivered his shortest inaugural speech (573 words). It would probably never be considered a great speech, but it indicated the President's mood and temper. There was no reference to domestic affairs, nothing but a passing remark on the war. The President's thoughts that day were on the kind of world that will follow the peace...
...Author Harnett Kane of New Orleans told of Louisiana elections held in white bars or bordellos, which no Negro dared enter. He recalled Huey Long's remark after the Legislature repealed Louisiana's poll tax in 1934: "The white primary will take care of the nigger...
...summer of 1941. with the declaration of Hitler's holy war against the godless Bolsheviks, Minister Skancke looked hopefully to the Church for support. What he got instead was a cool remark from Berggrav that at the bishops' meeting "the war-political question . . . naturally was not among the matters discussed." The puppet press broke into a rash of vilification and Vidkun Quisling screamed: "Religion is outdated." The final break was near...
...more than necessary nuisances. His attitude is typified by the recent cartoon in which two men watch a new secret weapon-a buzzbomb with a loud speaker-flying over their heads. Says one: "I'm told that five seconds after the whirring sound stops it shouts a rude remark by Goebbels...