Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell the story of the complicated diplomatic maneuvering and to weigh Munich's results impartially, Editor Armstrong needed no less than 93 pages in the January Foreign Affairs. Even then there were still missing links to be supplied, such as a full chronology of events and official texts. Final result of Mr. Armstrong's post-Munich ponderings, published this week, is a full-fledged book entitled When There Is No Peace,* whose 236 pages constitute the first really professional, scholarly analysis of a year filled with Fascist triumphs and democratic defeats...
Ickes (on the air): "Freedom is impossible. . . . Did he [Mr. Gannett] tell his readers that he was in hock [to International Paper Co., which once owned stock in Gannett papers in Albany and Ithaca]? ... At Johns Hopkins there has been a very sensational finding resulting from study of the effect of cigaret smoking that has not appeared, so far as I know, in any newspaper in the United States...
...Manhattan after six weeks in Hollywood "for me 'olidays," blonde, blowzy British Comedienne Grade Fields whistled, whooped, kicked her legs in the air, dunked doughnuts obligingly for photographers, said: "I've got a lot of funny noises. I'm a bit nuts, but don't tell anybody...
Manhattan's fusty old First National Bank is long on tradition. No employe or officer may smoke, swear or tell risqué stories within its portals. Most desks are roll-tops and on their upper right-hand corners officers' hats are traditionally poised. Last week it looked as though another tradition were forming. For the retirement of First National's Chairman Jackson Eli Reynolds, a onetime lawyer who had no banking experience when he became First National president 17 years ago, gave complete command of Manhattan's ninth largest bank to President Leon Fraser, who also...
Only witness to the Don's descent into Hell was his scalawag servant, Leporello, word was no more trustworthy than his master's. Doña Ana, her suitor Don Ottavio and Leporello set off for Juan's country home, to tell Juan's father of his son's strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face...