Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bourgeois got Washington's architectural sculptor John J. Earley to do the external ornamentation. Bourgeois did not live to see the results: he died in 1930, on the Temple grounds. Wrote he of the shrine: "It is too sacred to me to try to utter words about it. . . . Most people who appreciate this 'new art' look to me as the creator of it, but the One Who did it, they do not know-that One was the Blessed Perfection...
...used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother-a sensible...
Charles Collingwood was so flattered by his award last week that he was unable to utter an appropriate "thanks." Probably the world's youngest (26) warcaster today, he had the distinction of having won radio's top prize at the beginning of his career. CBS's Ed Murrow hired the Peabody-winner in London two years...
Last week the House debated colonial policy. Laborite Creech A. Jones rose to utter these labored words: "Much as it might be right that Britain should not and could not transfer her administrative responsibility to an international syndicate, it was imperative we should give evidence that we welcomed third-party interest and third-party judgment and the fullest cooperation in the colonial field." To that, Liberal James Armand de Rothschild snapped: "We are not fighting against the thralldom of the Central European powers to submit after the war to any tyranny on the part of Pan American Airways...
...year ago, on the German Heroes' Memorial Day (March 15), Adolf Hitler told his people: "The Bolshevik hordes, which could not be defeated this winter by the German soldiers . . . will in the coming summer be crushed to utter destruction." Last week, Heroes' Memorial Day was postponed without explanation...