Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your newspapers really take the place of our news placards, and your bawling news boys with their "read all about it" trumpet call, really do announce those headlines to everyone within earshot. Our people just yell vaguely and you can never make out what they are saying, but this particular news placard of the Evening Standard just said "Peace Threat." In fact, having already between us killed about 100,000 people, the highly civilized countries of Europe are suddenly threatened with Peace. That such a prospect should be described as a disaster is some small indication of the state...
...last thing I would want to do would be to defend the action of the Soviet Government at the particular time at which they took it," said Lord Halifax, "but it is right to remember two things...
...straight truth is not the only instrument of propaganda that the British use. Their statesmen happen to possess a grade of literary finesse surpassed by no ruling group in the world today, and one in particular has contrived to bring to the Foreign Office publications the quality of the bestseller...
...many years a race official at New London. He said that the choice of any one type of crew man for a boat was almost entirely a matter of contemporary style, and that the best crew man did not necessarily have to confine himself to any particular build. His knowledge was based not only on his long association with crew but upon the fact that while he was a Captain of the Columbia crew he helped to nurse the sport out of its infancy...
...high peak of excellence is Clifford McBride, creator of "Napoleon and Uncle Elby." His ability to express real with by men as of the drawings themselves, together with his subtle control over line in order to bring out character, can be equaled by no other artist in this particular field. It is not my intention to establish these men as great artists; they are, however, worth special notice because they are craftsmen who can be placed in a category well above that of the simple illustrator. It is well to remember, too, that Daumier, one of the most powerful figures...