Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither Washington nor Rome could say what Mr. Welles was trying to do; and Mr. Welles said nothing. But because of the Welles mission, unusual interest was attached last week to two sidelights on the U. S. in the last...
...lords, ladies and gentlemen. . . ." Quietly it proceeded, in the well-considered, nicely balanced classical oratory without which no Briton could become a politician and no politician move a Briton: "I don't think there can be doubt in the mind of any reasonable man or woman. . . . I might say . . . I pause one moment to consider. . . . And here I speak not only for this country but for the whole empire...
...start as a statesman 30 years ago, with whom he had spent his boyhood and youth, who had respected and feared and loved his great father decades before that-"to whom," as the Prime Minister said, "I owe my political education and without whose unfailing support, I might say without whose hereditary support, I should not be occupying the place that I am today...
...speaking with modesty and humor about nothing of importance. "Maiden aunts are the subject of songs and stories, but they are some of the most useful members of the community," chirped Miss Horsbrugh pleasantly. "I speak with feeling, being one of them!" When Health's Horsbrugh ventured to say that many females of from 60 to 65 are "tired women," Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill shrilled earnestly: "What about men?" Laborite Andrew McLaren cracked: "Men are tired all their lives!" Sneered truculent extremist Laborite David Kirkwood: "I don't think I ever heard a better example of Her Master...
...whole, congenial. For a writer of Mr. Cabell's peculiar gifts, the world of his own imagining was the most comfortable. Certainly his attempt to restore a world and a story which have been clouded over by Shakespeare's play makes neither sense nor a good novel. He may say of Poictesme, as Touchstone once said, "When I I was at home, I was in a better place...