Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman who stays around Cambridge awhile or who has heard tell of Harvard from some unfortunate vantage point like New Haven or Hanover can be ignorant of one symbol, one illusion, one catch-phrase commonly associated with New England and Harvard in particular...
...tell me to do this?' asked the Prince...
...under by more than 100,000 votes. That blizzard was not directly caused by the fact that during the campaign Mr. McAdoo was called too conservative, too old (74), a former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank in his opponent's platform. Opponent Sheridan Downey, erstwhile No. 2 man in Upton Sinclair's EPIC movement, onetime attorney of Dr. Francis E. ("Plan") Townsend, won the Democratic nomination to the Senate because he made a golden promise...
Something of a wag in a field where well-considered waggery is always good publicity, Composer Scott has long been notorious for his absentmindedness, his incredible stories about himself ("I tell people I do things, and they believe me," he complains) and the goofy titles he gives his works. Sample: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals. Of his wife, who carefully checks over all his compositions, on the lookout for unintentional plagiarisms, he says, "She's a regular musical blotter...
...Chairman Sheppard of the Senate's Campaign Expenditures Committee to explain that the Workers Alliance fund would not: 1) be raised exclusively among WPA workers, 2) be contributed to any party war-chest, 3) spent by anyone but the Workers Alliance-for pamphlets, mass meetings, radio time to tell the unemployed where their "interests" in the Congressional campaign lie. Unimpressed, Chairman Sheppard last week wrote to President Lasser: "Personally, I warn you . . . not to carry out this proposed plan. . . . If you proceed. . . and if the committee should agree with my interpretation of the law, it is my intention...