Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...admission had hung over the debates of the Consultative Assembly, had seeped into the delegates' conversations as they sat on Strasbourg's fine restaurant terraces, eating Strasbourg's fine pâté. Churchill did not force the issue to a vote; he did suggest that the Council's Committee of Ministers convoke a special session in December or January, to receive a German delegation. He also reserved the right to reopen the Germany question at this Council session, if there were signs that it was going...
This novel was published in England last June as Boys and Girls Come Out to Play, a title that the U.S. publishers discarded as overlong and over-likely to suggest a book for juveniles. U.S. readers may nevertheless bear it in mind, for the book can be taken as an engraved invitation to a whole class of career intellectuals to break out of their nurseries. It is a civilized and at times a sardonically funny satirical novel...
...deep in the Ozarks. It has always been a source of amusement in our family-that part of our "education." Now I am horrified to see my own son entering school in much worse surroundings: more dilapidated, crowded, dirty and understaffed schools than that Ozark country school . . . May I suggest that someone make a mold of Principal Joseph Schwertz of New Orleans' Beauregard school [TIME, July 25], then cast about 1,000 copies of him and distribute them in California...
...described what he saw: "The glasses would serve as my trademark and at the same time suggest the character-quiet, normal, boyish, clean, sympathetic, not impossible to romance." Pathé made four two-reelers of him in spectacles, and they were an instant success...
...they had been stranded at a sedate costume party. In other scenes, when they try for a truly Slavic intensity, they seem to be acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players, including Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead and Frank Morgan, occasionally suggest what the film might have been-but only occasionally. At their worst, even the veterans lapse into the caricature of the fancy-dress ball...