Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even his superior officer should have known what his opinion was. His superior officer had instructed him to testify ''freely and frankly," then disciplined him for doing so. Now, should an officer of our military establishment need the consent of his superior officer to permit him to tell the truth as he sees it or express an opinion at the invitation of a House military subcommittee, which committee's conclusion is of first importance in our national defense...
...dashing about Germany delivering was election speeches. He was quite out of touch with the experienced German diplomats of the Wilhelmstrasse whose shrewd advice in foreign policy he so often takes. Therefore the rough Realmleader's natural reaction to the Eden "smoothie" was to order von Hoesch to tell Britain in effect to go to hell. Ran the official Hitler text: "The German Government cannot enter into a discussion with regard to lasting or provisional limitation of German sovereignty in the Rhineland territory...
...bellowing frenzy of last week the job was easy. "I am indifferent," he cried, "to compliments, threats, warnings, disrespect or disapproval. With trance-like surety, I go the way on which Destiny guides me. . . . Therefore, with His grace. I will act for the Germans and their interests. . . . Nobody shall tell me there is such and such an international institution that I must respect...
...Crown produced the patched blouse in which a faceless head had been found wrapped in The Devil's Beef Tub and asked the stepmother of Mary Jane Rogerson to comment upon it as a witness before the jury. "Yes, that is the blouse," said Mrs. Rogerson. "I can tell because I put on the patch. It was an old blouse, but I bought it at a jumble sale for Mary - she had wanted one, just to put under her costume...
Autobiographers who want to tell about themselves, without giving the whole show away, have discovered there is more than one way to kill a cat. Gertrude Stein did it by pretending it was Alice B. Toklas speaking. Norman Douglas did it by thumbing through a lifetime's collection of calling cards, telling what he could remember about each visitor. Last week Gladys Bronwyn Stern beat an even more ingenious path about the bush. Readers learned little from Monogram about the facts of Author Stern's life but heard plenty about her fancies and opinions. For her admirers...