Word: told
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S review (Nov. 20) of CBS' The Pursuit of Happiness, you told only half the story of Ballad for Americans which Paul Robeson sang so magnificently. The ballad, evidently through some oversight, was credited to me as creator. Actually, while I wrote the music, the entire text including the beautiful selections you reprinted, was the work of the young poet, John Latouche...
...corner. At a long mahogany table facing the Supreme Court Justice's desk sat the young lady's parents. Across the table from them sat a young man with a belligerently cheerful smile. With him was his lawyer. "It's real love," the lawyer told the reporters...
...loved the stockmarket, had been several times rich, several times poor. The family totem pole was the Wall Street Journal. Before his son Robert was out of high school, Father Rhea gave him the Journal's difficult William Peter Hamilton editorials on the Dow Theory of stock prices, told him to master them or get spanked...
...hundreds who did not graduate, most were neither flunked nor fired; they were casualties. In recording their names, words, battles, songs, commanders, Rolfe writes hardly ever as an individual but as the chosen chronicler of a group. His book is thus an official history, clearly and decently told but subject to the narrowness and reticence of its kind, supplementing and to be supplemented by such a vivid personal history as Alvah Bessie's (TIME...
...Congress confined his investigations specifically to groups engaged in overthrowing the government, more facts and less sensation would result. Stripped of his power to prowl at will, Dies would soon find that the sum-total of his scares add up to little. Un-Americanism becomes a ghost story when told in installments before bedtime. But collected in one rational account, the goblin of subversive activities is cut down to man-size...