Word: uttered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour he remained the direct, incisive, fact-hunting and fact-recording journalist, whether in prose, poetry, verse or doggerel. He was estimated to have died with the greatest fortune ever made by an author, something like $3,750,000. In his last in terview in 1935 he said with utter candor: "You must bait your hook with gaudy words. I used to search for words in the British Museum. I read mad poets...
...fact remains that this country will soon embark on a program of re-arming that would surprise the most ardent militarist in the War College. The clouds across the Pacific loom too large to be ignored any longer. Investigations by the War Department have revealed only too starkly our utter unpreparedness and the inefficiency of much of our material. Both our war lords and the yellow press have hammered away at the Congress until now America will assume the mailed glove, and in future her national defense will consist of more than diplomatic notes or strongly penned warnings. Though...
...East 40th, New York City. We try to show each little utility The lack of charm and utter futility Of being bad, and how to be good And stay on the path of rectitude. But if on that road they run amuck, We'll ride them down with the big Mack...
...newspapers. The declared aim of the Croix de Feu is to unite their members in disinterested patriotism, clear and free from any and all political factions. When, two years ago, public scandal in France reached a pitch that aroused general indignation and brought to light the utter corruption of the party which has been in power for the past 60 years, the Croix de Feu paraded the streets of Paris as a warning that men who had exposed their lives to defend their country were prepared to do so again in another field. . . . The Croix de Feu cannot help...
...strive to dispel the bitterness and the littleness of the few who still think and talk in terms of the old and utter selfishness, we are working towards the destruction of sectionalism, of class antagonism and of malice...