Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coronation he stands for the English people's idea of Kingship!" booms the Bishop. "[The King] needs the grace of God. . . . We hope he is aware of his need! Some of us wish he gave more positive signs of such awareness." (In sending this out British Press associations suggest that editors tone it down by omissions. Next day the Bishop says he wrote his whole speech six weeks before he made it and only after writing it heard for the first time in his life of Mrs. Simpson...
...satisfy an audience. The singing of George Trabert and Diana Gaylen, particularly their duets, send one from the theatre humming those old melodies still pleasant to the ear. This is, perhaps, the last revival of "Blossom Time"; its day is past. Before it wings into the blue, we suggest that you see it. It still pleases...
...President Vargas at Itamaraty Palace for Rio's officialdom. There President Roosevelt warmed Brazilian hearts by declaring: "You have done much to help us in the United States in many ways in the past. We, I think, have done a little to help you, and may I suggest that you, with this great domain of many millions of square miles, of which such a large proportion is still unopen to human occupation, can learn much from the mistakes we have made in the United States...
...Unhappy were the King & Mrs. Simpson when she began to receive last week anonymous notes postmarked in London's fashionable Mayfair and threatening her life. Many were written in such cultivated terms as to suggest that some of the poison-penpushers may very well be peeresses or at least English gentlemen with a public school background...
Last week Editor Bruce Bliven of The New Republic openly wrote to William Randolph Hearst: "My immediate purpose ... is to suggest that you retire from active journalism. You are an elderly man. . . . Why not turn over the reins to someone else and enjoy the sunset years? . . . Things are going rather badly for your daily newspapers. . . . Even in cities where your papers have shown slight [circulation] gains, their competitors have run away from them by many thousands. . . In advertising revenue, also, your papers have not been doing so well. ... A special problem for you has been created by your present attitude...