Word: slant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This would not particularly worry President Roosevelt and the U. S. Department of State if there were not something of a pro-Nazi, anti-U.S. slant to much that President Arias says and does. In the official version of his inaugural address was the statement that he believed the U. S. knew how to cooperate with Panama on a basis of good will, but that Panama, although too small to defend herself, could always make concessions to foreign countries who would defend her against demonstrations of ill will. Dr. Arias thought twice and skipped this sentence when he delivered...
...Albert C. ("Argyrol") Barnes, who takes as students none but the best. Said Freda, "We'd never seen a collection like it before. We'd never had the influence of the French Impressionists. It's almost breath-taking." Ida: "Now we're getting a new slant on art. It's invigorating...
...newspaper publishers expressed their views in their editorial pages, and in their cartoons-notoriously the least influential portion of modern papers. Those publishers who grew heated in their partisanship-and many did in the last week of the campaign-showed their bias in the slant given their headlines and in the relative space and prominence given news favorable and unfavorable to their chosen candidate. Decisions about space, position and headlines can never be anything but matters of editorial discretion. In some cases conscious, in more cases perhaps unconscious bias last week distorted the use of this discretion...
...past election, American newspaper publishers achieved an unprecedented unanimity as to which presidential candidate they should sell to the public. The editorial furore was turned on, news stories were given the appropriate slant, and the methods by which to save the American way of life were duly impressed, without leaving much impression. The American people voted as they pleased, in opposition to their press; first, because they have long given up reading editorials, and second, because they have learned to be on their guard against publishers' slants...
...mischievously through vari-hued sultans' palaces, grapples with monsters, summons a towering genie, flies over the top of the world, blows up the Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June Duprez). The sinister forces are led by Conrad Veidt, who conjures up more dire magic and dirty treachery than the screen has seen since Dracula...