Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should not have written this because it has been a confidential matter between Mr. Coryell and myself (I fear he will not like my doing it) but already there has crept into the newspapers some word of what he has been doing for his alma mater and I think it is better to give you the facts correctly than have them possibly seep into your office somewhat distorted. N. C. ABBOTT Superintendent...
...Ohio's Mahoning Valley. The word "dynamite" aroused against C.I.O. a vigilante spirit before which no labor union could long survive...
...Gerald Wollaston had been slated to attend a dinner at which his place was just across the table from the Duke of Kent. Since Kent is just about Windsor's most loyal friend in the Royal Family, a scene loomed as unavoidable-until suddenly Sir Gerald wilted, sent word that he would be unable to come. Just before the guests sat down, his place card was whisked off the table...
...something Moscow really wanted in return for their support penetrated via new French Premier Chau-temps even as far as London. His Majesty's Government were extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must be able to tell French Communists that he was successfully staving off this British gesture toward Franco. In this appeal Chautemps & Bonnet-who was on the telephone...
...grass with the rank & file. In the German Army the whole lot of them would have been either court-martialed or stood before a firing squad. But, notes Private Bemelmans gratefully, "they let me speak German, tell me that Germany is beautiful, and don't say a word that I have a stack of German books and many German ideas." One of his German expressions, in fact, became a fixture of camp life. Private Bemelmans called his Oswego girl friend "Summer Sprouts," because that is the German phrase for freckles, of which she had a great many. She never...