Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family, only a younger sister Sheila had attended. Brother Malcolm was too busy in his office as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. A quiet ceremony had been decided upon, explained Ishbel, because of the recent death of her father (TIME, Nov. 22). "I'm not going to tell you about the honeymoon. I shall not say whether we are going to the Plow tonight," smiled the new Mrs. Ridgley coyly. Shy Mr. Ridgley, who listed himself on the marriage register as "house decorator," blushed, rapturously said nothing...
...Annunzio ruled Fiume as its fantastic Dictator, among other things granted himself by decree a divorce he had been vainly trying to get for years. The Dictator of Fiume even issued a proclamation "declaring war on Italy," but delighted Italians knew it was his way of helping Rome tell President Wilson they were "powerless" to control this great Italian patriot. Eventually D'Annunzio, after an Italian warship had duly popped a few projectiles into Fiume, surrendered it to his native country and strutted home to be created a Prince, almost suffocated with adulation...
...glowing cigaret, declared: "I am not guilty. I have been a member of the Bolshevik Party from 1903 until my arrest, and I believe that I am, still a Bolshevik. I did not speak the truth before my examiners.† I lied, of my own free will. I will tell the truth now so that it will reach the ears of the Soviet Government heads. I am not a Trotskyist...
Although critics might complain that they could not always tell what Editor De Voto was driving at, they had to admit that he more than made up for the amiable neutrality that had previously characterized the Saturday Review. Writing in a prose style so vehement it sometimes seemed apoplectic, Editor De Voto raged at U. S. intellectuals, accusing them en masse of "misrepresenting" the country. He passionately championed the cause of the Italian sociologist, Pareto. His critical haymakers included swings at Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Marx, reformers and believers in planned societies, Van Wyck Brooks, progressive education. With enthusiasms just...
...Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife the truth. When he kisses his secretary, he tells his wife that the secretary sneaked up on him. He admits looking at other women's legs, but turns his confession into a diatribe on their immodesty. Souring under the strain, he declares the world is going...