Word: hint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Man he carefully saved his own earnings while pretending to be at the gates of the poorhouse, left an estate of ?68,000 which he deposited in three London banks in mortal fear of Communists. Famed for his self-confessed seductions, he dropped more than one hint confirming rumors of his sexual impotence, but threatened to vindicate his virility through the public courts. A onetime Irish Nationalist, he later served a term as sheriff, brooded over his neglect by the English aristocracy, became so agitated when finally given an audience in 1930 with the Prince of Wales that...
...public articles and letters, I have seen no hint of charity or hope that the King may find the happiness which he deserves. Only from young people and working people does one hear the good wishes and concern which one of them put into these words, "I do hope that she will make him happy and that the divorces do not mean that she is changeable." That is something that we all should hope...
...golf club, as the wife says to her husband, "I always feel uneasy here. We seem to be the only people with a foreign car." In another, an extremely British sales manager in impeccable striped trousers brings blushing shame to the cheeks of one of his salesmen with the hint: "I don't think it looks well for one of our representatives to run a foreign car." Nevertheless Edward VIII has a new Canadian Buick which the horrified United Kingdom industry considers "foreign...
...present case is the greatest divorce story in the history of journalism. . . . Moreover, the English are thorough masters if not the inventors of the 'I hear' and 'they say' school of journalism, the questioning innuendo and the sly hint which get the story across without laying it on the line, and they could handle this one in that familiar technique. . . . One can only decide that in the present case the press of England has lifted its cap to a fast grounder and let it roll to the outfield to cool...
...once the cloak of academic dignity is ripped from Military Science I the result is strange. There is a dash of mathematics, in which errors of 30 per cent aren't considered at all. There is a hint of a rule of thumb psychology in the lectures on "leadership" and "discipline." There are long weeks spent in memorizing the names of the parts of out-of-date cannon and the labels of the bags of powder. There are detailed descriptions on the workings of everything from obsolete machine guns to automobiles...