Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most reliable reports, Mr. Chamberlain strongly urged his new friend, in the absence of canny Secretary Hull, to persuade Mr. Roosevelt to issue a statement approving the Anglo-Italian pact. In any case Mr. Roosevelt, who last fall at Chicago proposed a "quarantine for aggressor nations," felt obliged to tell a press conference: 1) that he had neither approved nor disapproved the Scott Resolution, and 2) that the U. S. "approved" the Anglo-Italian agreement as a "proof of the value of peaceful negotiations...
...tell its story, Trojan Incident leaps frenziedly in all directions, snatches at pantomime, dancing, choral singing like merry-go-round riders snatching at a brass ring. Artistically a desecration of Greek drama, Trojan Incident has nevertheless a mongrel excitement of its own: the tale flushes with pathos and movement, and some of Wallingford Riegger's music, such as the narrative chant The Song of the Horse, gives the story a rhythmic speed...
...Jackie has had all he is entitled to, and more," shrilled Lillian Coogan Bernstein. "He isn't entitled to that money. It belongs to us." Added Stepfather Bernstein: "The law is on our side. Lawyers tell his mother and me that every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents...
There is no telltale mark on the ears of infected corn. And Professor Neill last week persisted in refusing to tell how to identify the deadly stalks. Said she: "We don't want to start something that we can't stop. As soon as we discover how the disease gets on the corn and where it comes from, it then will be possible to start work to stop...
...soundtrack" of verse accompanying these photographs sometimes runs close to the story they tell, sometimes veers off in its own direction. No photograph in the collection really matches up with Poet MacLeish's main proposition...