Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...native of Holland and an admirer of the British people, the fairest and most courageous in the world today-they do not hide behind Neutrality Laws like your terrified country does-I would take this opportunity to tell you that your statement is scurrilous and unjust...
Such were the morning-after sentiments of cheery Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. But not for two days did her husband tell the press how he felt about the election returns. In reply to direct questions he finally said the returns were "all right"; he did not anticipate a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats working against him; his own forecast of Democratic losses had been too small by one Senator, 16 Representatives; he did not plan to change his legislative program. Oldtime, arch-Republican Correspondent Mark Sullivan, watching Franklin Roosevelt intently from the massed ranks of reporters, admitted that he looked...
...Once, in the college library, Heavenly Gates with powerful fists ripped up a copy of Freethinker Tom Paine's Common Sense which someone handed him. Once he turned in tortured fury on a football player who said: "Say, Heavenly, if you've got any pull with God, tell him to stop this rain...
...Actress Alice Brady-last week announced the formation of a permanent Manhattan stock company reminiscent of the age of Frohman, Daly, Wallack. Plays new & old will be presented each season at intervals of six weeks. First play, opening late this month: G. B. Shaw's You Never Can Tell...
...muster some of his motor enthusiasts for a personally conducted tour of the show. This week, too. Weaver's biggest customer research opus makes its debut-a slick, 80-page Motorist's Handbook and Buyer's Guide to be distributed to 5,000,000 customers to tell them what they have told GM about their taste in automobiles...