Word: pretender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precise and tall among the nondescript brownstones off Manhattan's Gramercy Park stands the National Hospital for Speech Disorders, founded 23 years ago by an earnest laryngologist with the neat name of James Sonnett Greene. The hospital cannot pretend to serve all the 13,000,000 afflicted with speech disorders in the U. S., but it does its bit. In its time it has helped some 30,000, has guided a national move toward unfettered speech, once inaugurated a campaign which has pretty much driven stuttering comedians from the cinema. Its Ephphatha Club, named for the command ("be opened...
...voted to publish the names, addresses, titles and salaries of 528 Federal employes, 30 District of Columbia schoolteachers, nurses, social workers, etc., four teachers at Howard (Negro) University, all of whom supposedly were or had been members of the American League for Peace and Democracy. Martin Dies did not pretend that they were Communists. He flatly announced that they were being punished for staying in a League which his committee had exposed as organized and controlled by the Communist Party...
...they may, no strength and no artifice will ever succeed in banishing from the human life the ills and troubles which beset it. If any, there are those who pretend differently-- who hold out to a hard pressed people freedom from pain and trouble, undisturbed repose and constant enjoyment--then cheat the people and impose upon them their lying promises only making the evil worse than before. The high debt of 40 billion for a nation of 130,000,000 inhabitants together with over 10,000,000 unemployed should be much more our common concern than the happenings in Europe...
...efficiency in grinding out Nazis, Communists who know just what is expected of them, most of Survey Graphic's experts gloomily concluded that democracy's schools are not at the moment prepared to meet the competition. Because U. S. schools (like the U. S. people) do not pretend to know all the answers, these experts proposed that what U. S. Education needs is a big blue print...
...streams of reinforcements flowing toward Trier at week's end. They looked like about six divisions, which would be no great diversion from the 70 (out of Germany's total of over 100 divisions) known to be on the Polish Front. All week official Berlin continued to pretend that all was quiet on the Western Front, at week's end scornfully admitting "occasional little exchanges." The French reported a German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed at a key part of the Maginot Line in Sierk, north of Metz. This was designed to reduce...