Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invited were asked to keep secret. It took the form of a bow, some thanks, an exhortation to keep fighting and a promise to vindicate the fighters' choice. Representative Dyer of Missouri enlivened the evening with a veritable placing-in-nomination speech, but of greater significance was a statement by Campbell Bascom Slemp, astute Virginian. Mr. Slemp, onetime (1923-25) private secretary to President Coolidge and until that evening known as an outstanding "Coolidge-anyway" man, confessed to personal Hooverism and virtually promised the hitherto uninstructed Virginia delegation (15 strong). Also, since Mr. Slemp's talent for delegate...
...departure of Sinclair's lawyers for El Paso to take Fall's deposition for the defense. The gist of the Fall statement was expected to be the old story that it was Edwin Denby, the Harding Navy Secretary and not Fall who persuaded President Harding to transfer Teapot Dome from the Navy to the Interior Department, a transfer to which Fall says he assented "reluctantly and only at the instance of the President...
Commenting upon Walter Hampden's recent statement that the level of the stage would be lowered if Shakespeare were abandoned, Mr. Howard said. "I always read Shakespeare with a good deal of boredom at first, but the longer I am on the stage, and the more I write myself, the more I appreciate the man's greatness. I hope to play Shakespeare before very long, if only to gratify a whim. The plays that he wrote and those of his contemporaries are unequalled as far as an actor is concerned...
...convinced that Professor Rollins does not understand the spirit and "essence" of poetry. When one has glanced through several of the volumes Professor Rollins had edited, this statement appears even more absurd and ridiculous than the later statement about "novels, chronology, and similar bricks and mortar of literature". Neither of these statements is any more worthy of serious comment than the "skillibooch . . . gmmk" of a baby-or the braying of an ass. Such noises speak for themselves-certain vibrations have issued forth from a cavity into the surrounding atmosphere causing a meaningless noise at which we must either laugh...
...contained an item which caused amazement to many a student of human anatomy. The item: "Marechal de Bas-sompierre poured 13 [pint] bottles of wine into a vase and drank it in one breath-as a toast to the 13 cantons of Switzerland." Mr. Ripley had proof for this statement in French histories, which told how Marechal de Bassompierre, famed convivial, was sent by King Louis of France in 1625 to recruit Swiss guards and gain a pledge of allegiance from the Swiss cantons. Two Manhattan physicians, last week, said that the medieval historians had exaggerated, for it is impossible...