Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also I was surprised ... at the remark: "Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets." I know Mr. Odets, and one thing which impressed me was his quiet manner of speaking; I often had to reach to hear what he had to say...
...Odets may speak softly to Astrologer Holmes, but he had to shout to be heard above the tumult at the Waldorf. Meanwhile, theatergoers certainly have been reaching to hear what he has to say at the National Theater...
...foreign correspondents who learned their trade under the auspices of the free U.S. or British press, the kind of restricted news coverage that the Balkans Communist states now have to offer is, to say the least, frustrating. It is all the more to the credit of those correspondents who remain, therefore, that they are doing a tough job as best they can until the Iron Curtain closes completely or it again becomes possible to report freely what is going on in the Balkans...
...protested Brannan. The magic rabbit would make things nicer for farmer and consumer, and that meant everybody. But how much would it cost and who would pay for it? Charlie Brannan wasn't able to say offhand what the cost would be; he thought it would be no more than the cost of the present price-support program (an estimated $860 million this fiscal year, an unpredictable part of which may be recouped in later years by the Government in sales of stored surpluses). But for those who liked their arithmetic plain, the answer seemed too familiar. It looked...
...hotshot around the coal tipples, but on the sidewalks of New York he turned out to be strictly a stiff with a bum pitch. Last week, after eight days of trying, Lewis' flugelmen were badly beaten and muttering that they'd try again. They didn't say when...