Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this introduction Franklin Roosevelt, in the final days of his First Administration, proceeded to reveal in detail one of the major objectives of his Second. The effect of the revelation on politicians and political observers was almost as stunning as if in March 1933 he had laid down a complete blueprint of the New Deal. Knocked breathless, official Washington soon rallied sufficiently to indicate that between the President and his goal lay the hardest fight of his White House career...
...with him. Neither would her host and press buffer, Herman Rogers. This behavior so infuriated her cousin, Lelia Gordon Dickey Noyes, who married Newbold Noyes after divorcing Robert Russell Dickey Jr. (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934), that she urged him to let Wallis have it now with both barrels and reveal much not yet revealed. In time's nick Mrs. Simpson be gan exchanging cables with Mr. Noyes who had taxed her by cable with "an act of incredible unfairness and ingratitude...
Thereafter Author Lawrence follows each employe home to reveal what lay back of his decision; Gregory wanting to marry, ambitious Johnny Palmet trying to get luxuries for his extravagant wife, Kati Oliver wanting to raise a child, frightened little Mureth Gavril trying to escape her mother's dominance, all with their noses close to the grindstone, all burdened with debts, worry, obligations to relatives, making unappreciated sacrifices and impossible plans. On the other side the Luth brothers are fanning a feeble flicker of business, trying to keep from taking losses, while their children make foolish marriages, family parasites drain...
Benchley's statistics reveal "that practically nothing of consequence has been accomplished by its members in a quarter of a century. The Class has produced only one Bishop of Albania, or, at any rate, only one who later became Prime Minister. Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda. We have only one Weather Man who advocates the "frontal method" (three dimensions) over the "surface method" (two dimensions). In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
Skin tests failed to reveal any specific allergy. A Washington doctor cut out the adolescent's tonsils, with no effect on the sneezing. Other specialists could find nothing unusual in her lungs or nervous system...