Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans for Democratic Action, of which Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. is national vice chairman, promptly announced that its executive board would meet in Pittsburgh on April 10 to endorse a man who can "enlist the united allegiance of non-Communist American progressives." A.F.L. and C.I.O. bigwigs put forth the word that they would soon come out swinging...
...week's end, chances of the U.S. being one of the two looked doubtful. Said one GOP leader: "It is dead and going to stay dead. The word has gone out to that effect . . . there are some members who don't want to get mixed up with Russia in that kind of a deal." Public health men were indignantly reminding Congressmen that cholera germs do not respect national boundaries, or even iron curtains...
...store to support Matisse and their three children, but it did not stay open long; by 1908 buyers had begun to see the beauty of the beast's work. In that year he published his ambiguous Notes of a Painter, which have been quoted as his final word ever since. "What I dream of," he wrote, "is an art that is equilibrated, pure and calm, free of disturbing subject matter ... a means of soothing the soul . . . like a comfortable armchair. . . ." That simile has led critics to expect far less of Matisse than he expected of himself...
Russia's top composers had apologized for writing ugly, "bourgeois," tainted music. But had their apologies been accepted? From word that trickled out of Russia last week, it seemed...
...nine months Maggie Teyte studied with Debussy, he hardly said a word to her. ("He was an ogre," says Maggie, "and I was very cold-very English.") But she learned enough from him to take over Mary Garden's role at the Opéra-Comique and make a name for herself as Mèlisande. That was 40 years ago. Last week, although they had often cheered her in recital, Manhattan operagoers finally got to hear Maggie in the role that had first won her fame. It was the first time she had ever sung the full opera...