Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall Britons with whom he had come to negotiate. They got on famously-so well, indeed, that the British Cabinet voluntarily sacrificed their sacrosanct week end, worked Saturday and Sunday to oblige Premier Flandin and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval. Normally in London any statesman rash enough to suggest that the Government forego their week end is met either with a freezing stare or the suave, stock British excuse: "Impossible, I am afraid. In Paris, yes. But in London even a rumor that the Cabinet may find it necessary to break their week end upsets the City...
...Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four big embryonic leaves. A moon was suspended in the sky like a bruised alligator pear...
Even Huey Long had something to say about the World Court. During the tirade he spoke about "these rascals we have here." Senator Lewis, of Illinois, rose quickly to his feet, deeply chagrined, and asked, "May I take the liberty to suggest to the able Senator from Louisiana that when he makes the observation 'those rascals we have here,' he does not really mean physically here in the United States Senate?" Huey hastily replied "Oh, the Senator knows that I by all means exclude the Senate, and exclude myself...
...suggest the removal of all censorship where nothing appears against the will of these involved, or harms any other physically. This will give rise to a sort of natural selection of the fittest in literature...
...onlooker hating violence, Yuan plays no vital part in the revolution that brought Chiang Kai-shek to Nanking. Mrs. Buck's faintly archaic Biblical rhythms, so well-adapted to the peasant and patriarchal life of an older China, falter when she tries to suggest the clutter of the coastal cities and the amazement of a young Chinese in the U. S. Her style has been compared by her more enthusiastic followers to the prose of the King James Bible. Critic Stark Young has attempted to put the quietus to this claim by printing some of Pearl Buck and some...