Word: text
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...multiplied power man has let it be known that the strength of himself and multitude remains at the service of Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal, but not necessarily at the service of Franklin Roosevelt and Democratic Party. To drive home this distinction, John Lewis took as his text Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, N. J., vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee...
...Georges Clemenceau "a terrible old man" and was thanked by the Tiger of France for "having the nerve to say such things"; he scooped the world on the substitution of Nivelle for Joffre as the French Army's Commander-in-Chief; he scooped it again by getting the text of the Versailles Treaty first to the London Times; he helped build up Universal Service (now INS) in Europe...
...Whiteville, N. C. News Reporter last week published the full text of an application for old age assistance filed by one Annie Bell Bowden, colored, of Cumberland...
Having thought this over, having submitted the full text of his speech in advance to the State Department, and having emphasized that he was speaking in London for himself, not the Administration, candid Ambassador Kennedy revealed his feelings about the way the crisis was handled and the implications of Munich. Earnestly Mr. Kennedy declared: "It long has been a theory of mine that it is unproductive for both democratic and dictator countries to widen the division now existing between them by emphasizing their differences, which are self-apparent. Instead of hammering away at what are regarded as irreconcilables, they could...
...this Playwright Allvine has strung together in a series of scenes which include chunks of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, introduce canny Impresario D'Oyly Carte, and evoke the artistic life of Victorian London. To garnish his text, Allvine has cribbed all the celebrated remarks of the day, making his chatter sound at times like a page from Bartlett's Quotations: Bernard Shaw pipes up with ''Some day Wagner will rank with Shakespeare and Shaw," Queen Victoria freezes her guests with "We are not amused," Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar...