Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Week before the House vote Representative Brewster went up to Maine promising to return in time to speak for the "death sentence." When he did return on the morning of the vote, it was to inform Mr. Corcoran that he had discovered himself in a "peculiar political position" in Maine and could not make the speech. Dismayed, Mr. Corcoran arranged to meet him and Dr. Gruening in Statuary Hall just before the vote. There Maine's No. 1 Power foe made the astounding revelation that he was not only not going to speak for the "death sentence...
Slowly through the 549 pages of The Furys James Hanley reveals his characters, lets their actions speak for them, presents accelerating events through the eyes of one after another, introduces a mass of realistic detail. The first of three novels dealing with the wild Fury clan, The Furys begins with the sort of situation on which most novels end. is distinguished by its sustained intensity, its brilliant characterization of Mrs. Fury, its brisk, unadorned, effective prose style, its few powerful, panoramic scenes of violence and disorder during the strike. Although readers may be repelled by the detachment of James Hanley...
...Crow adhered quite strictly to their own curious codes. Although they held to the ideal of monogamy, faithful and austere wives and husbands were respected rather than imitated. A man automatically took possession of his wife's younger sisters if he wanted them. But he could not speak to his mother-in-law, nor could she speak to him. While adultery was sometimes punished, it involved no disgrace, and it was considered beneath a brave's dignity to show jealousy. For two weeks each year the Crow engaged in a curious custom of wife-stealing, and after...
...Highest Feed Lawyer" did not forget that he is now Home Secretary, having been demoted from Foreign Secretary. Sir John made his debut in Home Affairs on the issue of chain letters, a racket now spreading from the U. S. throughout Great Britain. Famed for his ability to speak learnedly on any subject without committing himself to either side, the Home Secretary toyed with the question whether in Great Britain chain letters are legal or illegal. "I may observe," said the Great Lawyer, "that certain types of snowball schemes, to which chain letters bear some resemblance, have been held...
...were God," observed No. 3 Nazi Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels a few days later, "I would select other spokesmen than those who now claim the right to speak for Him. . . . Many intellectuals are trying to help the Jews with the ancient phrase, 'the Jew is also a man.' Yes, he is a man but what sort of a man? The flea is also an animal...