Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article on Gunga Din, TIME, Feb. 6, I take exception to your statement ". . . nor affront the intelligence of their seniors."* I think it is an insult to the intelligence of the moviegoer to expect him to believe among other things...
...officials announced that "Honest" Harold LeClair Ickes would have the last word upon his return from California. Meanwhile, Secretary Morgenthau issued a statement explaining that Chip's departure from the Treasury had been "voluntary and under honorable circumstances." Aggrieved Chip filed and then withdrew a $50,000 suit for slander against Representative Delacey Allen. Hot-tempered Delacey Allen offered to meet Chip Robert "with or without gloves" in the stadium at Georgia Tech's Grant Field, admission at $5 a head and the proceeds to "go toward meeting the State debt...
...customs of the plush-upholstered '80s and '90s, for the theatre of Sarah Bernhardt, the court life of Victorian England, the restaurants of old New York. A recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as "touch" in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski: "Art is a question of personality. What kind of personality has an umbrella...
Thereupon Banker Giannini himself took a bold propagandistic step. To squelch SEC charges that he took more money from his empire than he admitted, A. P. (who has lately been closeted with cunning Pressagent Edward L. Bernays) released a complete statement of his net worth, including cash, securities, salary, insurance. Instead of the millions most people would have guessed, it totaled only...
Nothing in her book quite lives up to her wide-eyed statement on p. 14 that "our family ties were abnormally close" - unless it is her name for the family's official residence in Berlin - "The Chancery." Before she would admit that she was really in chancery, Germany had other, very different holds on her. When she landed there in 1933, she was practically a predigested Nazi. She liked everything she saw, discounted rumors of things unseen...