Word: conveyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This wording of the question seemed to most Britons in court last week approximately as incoherent as the one on which Dr. Hanfstaengl based his suit, but the great earnestness of enormous Putzy won him some sympathy. It became possible to guess that Dr. Hanfstaengl had meant to convey to Lawyer Thompson some such thought as this: Oxford professors condemn us for what we have done to the Communists said to have burned down our Reichstag, but what would those same professors say if Communists burned down Oxford? To anyone who knows Putzy the whole matter was plainly...
Anyone acquainted with the history of the Tom Mooney case, will recognize your article in the Sept. 30 issue as grossly unfair and biased. Every sentence in it was adroitly written to convey an impression erroneous to the truth. . . . If this continues I shall certainly not renew my subscription to TIME, as I am interested in the facts, and not a flippant sophomorish interpretation of them for the benefit of prejudiced readers...
Prejudicial inference: A true statement, but worded to convey prejudice against Mooney, playing upon the sentiment of Preparedness Day and loss of lives...
...regret exceedingly that circumstances will prevent me from attending the 55th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor," President Roosevelt, fishing in the Pacific, radioed William Green at Atlantic City last week. "I request that you express my regret to the convention and that you will convey to them my hope and confidence that your meeting will be successful and rich in accomplishment...
...measure of a comic is the extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid or a star-crossed lover in a railway station, she never fails to convey by a twinkle in her eye, a snicker, a gesture, that she is enjoying quite as much as the audience the fool she is making of herself...