Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debarking in the morning, his body clad in soiled seersucker, his mind in deep anxiety, this President who needs only a world peace crown to make him perhaps the most memorable ever, did not tell the press what he had done. When he reached Washington, Mr. Roosevelt saw his State Department chiefs, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles. Before dinner they also drafted and dispatched appeals to Adolf Hitler and Poland's President Ignace Moscicki. But Mr. Roosevelt warned correspondents that his next morning's press conference would probably yield no major news. At the conference, he referred almost...
...announce a basis for peace at Green Mountain. A. F. of L. got the equivalent of a closed shop for its unions. Contractor Warner got assurance that he can resume work, catch up on his $4,000,000 contract. Back to Chicago went Father Maguire with much to tell his friend the Bishop...
Lady of the Tropics (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "In the Orient," as M. Jacques Delaroch (Joseph Schildkraut) has occasion to tell young Bill Carey (Robert Taylor) early in this picture, "we are less concerned with changing things than with enjoying them." A half-caste who-has made himself one of the richest men in French Indo-China, M. Delaroch is content to enjoy the attentions of half-caste Manon de Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr), cares nothing about her ambition to escape to Paris and change herself into a Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which...
...death, imagined that Byron (he had never seen her) was in love with her. She thought the women mentioned in his poems were herself. Her sons, Lucius and Plantagenet, shared her delusion. She wrote: ''Surely I cannot be mistaken! Byron, my adored Byron, come to me ... tell me, my Byron, if those mournful tender effusions . . . to Thyrza . . . were not intended for myself...
Irate mobs did not denounce Joseph Smith as loafer, drunkard, Satan's instrument, until he had refused to tell the hiding place of the golden plates. After they had dug up most of the Palmyra Hill of Cumorah without finding the gold, they drove him out of New York State. After the Mormon bank in Kirtland, Ohio failed during the panic of 1837, mobs in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois tarred & feathered Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political...