Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money to pay off the debt. It is in fact treating the repay ments as income and spending them. "If the subtraction of recoverable assets from the gross debt is valid," wrote Editor Moley, "then the Treasury's handling of these receipts is, to use a charitable word, unsound. . . . Democratic orators should refrain from leading their listeners to believe that $8,000,000,000 is the total in crease in the national debt...
President: Just one word or two on taxes, the taxes that all of us pay toward the cost of government of all kinds. Well, I know something of taxes. For three long years I have been going up & down this country preaching that government-Federal and state and local-costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. . . . I propose to you, my friends, and through you to the nation, that government of all kinds, big and little, be made solvent and that the example be set by the President of the United States and his Cabinet...
...correspondents galloped into the Soviet Foreign Office on the diplomats' heels they were received by an official who said that he personally wished with all his heart that Soviet bombers were roaring toward Madrid. "Unhappily it is not so," shrugged this Bolshevik spokesman, "the Soviet has given its word that it will not intervene in Spain and the Soviet has always lived up to its word...
...Christian Unity. Adopted by a Pan-Anglican Lambeth Conference in 1900, the Lambeth Quadrilateral stands today, a noble idea like the League of Nations which may some day work. Its formulators invited all Christendom to accept: " 1) the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as revealed Word of God; 2) the Nicene Creed as the sufficient statement of the Christian Faith; 3) the two Sacraments -Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, ministered with un failing use of Christ's words of institution, and of the elements ordained by Him; 4) The Historic Episcopate locally adapted...
...public discussion of venereal diseases. Nowhere is this taboo more rigidly enforced than on the screen or in radio. Cinema producers are well aware that any reference to the subject, regardless of good motives or public purpose, will only make trouble for themselves. Columbia Broadcasting will not permit the word "syphilis" to go out over the air from its stations. National Broad casting this year gingerly permitted Dr. Parran and two other authorities to mention the word in broadcasts. On the other hand the Press has made a notable response to Dr. Parran's campaign to get syphilis...