Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been needed by certain bigwigs. Mark Twain used him as a lawyer; Theodore Roosevelt needed him as Presidential booster in 1912; Woodrow Wilson made him Secretary of State for the final year, after two others had been tried and found disagreeable. Perhaps Mr. Colby used to say to his wife: "Now if I had been President Wilson...
...Four. From the British Legation at Peking, Counsellor O. O'Malley hastened to Hankow. In London Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain could find nothing more militant to say than that of course the Chinese could seize all foreign concessions if they were so short-sighted as to do so. This attitude made Mr. O'Malley's task most difficult, though nothing could have made it easy. He entered forthwith upon negotiations looking to re-occupancy of the British concession and resumption of trade...
...tabernacle, and whom Moses finds so hard to tame; who, in his paroxysms of rage, has massacred hundreds of thousands of his own chosen people, and would often have slaughtered the whole lot if cunning old Moses hadn't kept reminding him of 'what will the Egyptians say about it?' makes one feel utter contempt for the preachers and unfeigned pity for the mental state of those who can retail serious countenance as they per the stories of his peculiar whims, freaks and fancies...
...York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper. The day following its publication, my daughter Ellin said: 'Naturally my father could not have recognized me in the baby, because it was not my baby. I have never allowed the child...
...will never forgive him for the satirical hoaxes of program music composed specially to test how much cacophony, dissonance, exaggeration, clowning the dilettante audiences would applaud, the grave critics would ponder. They are puzzled by his laughing acceptance of derogatory criticism, recall his wife's remark: "You may say what you like about his music, but if you don't praise his handwriting he will be cross with you." Many of these people curl the lip, reflect with Hugo Riesmann: "His last works only too clearly reveal his determination to make a sensation at all costs...