Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want it thoroughly understood that I have never been in the game about which I inquire. Just suppose that a man or a set of men should successfully kidnap, say, one or two or three national figures in a certain European country, and land in another European country, or still be more successful and cross the Atlantic and land in the U. S., be arrested and incarcerated for the above deed, do you think public sentiment would be strong enough from the Chief Executive of this nation or those who are in position to use the executive power, that these...
...regard to the item you carried about my trouble in TIME Magazine [TIME, Nov. 7], it has been rumored here that I sent this news to your magazine for publication! How absurd this is! I can truthfully say I never sent publicity to a magazine or a newspaper in my life unless I was asked for it. I've never answered a critical book review. I feel like I've had my 'say' in the book and the reviewer is entitled to express his opinion. But when a constable hits me three times over the head...
...learning of the retirement of Professor John Livingston Lowes, I can only say that our infinite sense of loss in the Department of English is mingled with admiration for his superb achievement as a scholar, and with gratitude for his generosity as a colleague and a friend. It has been given to few to probe the secrets of the poet's heart as it has been given to him. We can give him only our thanks, admiration, and praise, but I believe that his greatest and most lasting tribute will come from those poets whose works he has illuminated...
...farm speech" in Topeka, Kans., one of Des Moines, Iowa's leading citizens had dinner with a group of friends. At the dinner Henry Wallace, the shockheaded editor of Wallace's Farmer and Iowa Homestead, raised his fingers, ticked off one by one the things he would say if he were making a farm speech. When guests and host repaired to hear the candidate. Franklin Roosevelt raised his hand, ticked off practically the same things. Henry Wallace broke out in one of his engaging smiles. From that day there has been a Wallace-Roosevelt farm program, with accent...
Miss Henie began, to collect herself for a dash to her car. "I love skilling too. Irving Berlin is writing the music for my next picture. I'll be back in Holly Wood February 5. I can't say anything about the European situation...