Word: hint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of Britons and Indians performing all sorts of functions vital to the Raj. For example the District Officers, many of them Britons of fine calibre doing their best for local Indian communities but harassed by having to write interminable reports to the Centre, were given a kindly hint by the Viceroy to ease up on this scrivening and get out on more camping trips among the people. "You may count upon my steady support," said Linlithgow, sounding as if he meant it, then added with wise humor: "For you District Officers it remains abundantly true that the tent...
What were the Bolsheviks up to? Had Moscow deliberately tried to wreck the new Monetary Peace during its first hours by a Russian bear raid on sterling? In the excited timbre of Secretary Morgenthau's voice when he first spoke there was perhaps a hint of suspicion of this sort, but most U. S. Treasury officials soon calmed down to a more comfortable theory. After all the Moscow comrades who run the Soviet State Bank are in danger of their very lives if they guess wrong on how to handle its assets and up to last week many European...
...them sells herself to her sensual boss, and although her condemnation is half facetious, it is clear that her act is not to be admired. Another throws himself before a subway train, and although he has been a complacent parasite on his pauper friends, there is the uncomfortable hint that in his death he is the bravest of them all. Ken Holden, the some-what major figure, trims his political views to suit his status of the moment, and when he learns that his life-giving job is merely a concoetion of his father's well-meant trickery, he gets...
Such a proposal stirs up a flock of visions. The very name "Supreme court" gives a hint of the mercurial nature of the proposal. Such pretensions have not been made by learned men since the universal church of the middle ages lost its franchise to monopolize education. Not without malice Professor Dewey of Columbia dubbed it a "Constitutional Assembly of Intellectuals," and it evidently follows that the Harvard Yard is to be the Versailles Tennis Court...
...racked their brains for a dozen weeks over the Globe-Democrat's "Famous Names." First trouble came when a Roman Catholic priest denounced the saucy drawings of Artist Arno. Soon the rival Star-Times, which once had an option on the contest itself, and Post-Dispatch began to hint that the contest was unfair. Finally two St. Louisans tied for first prize, won $6,000 each. Then Missouri's Attorney General cracked down, brought suit against the fat, frightened Globe-Democrat on the ground that "Famous Names" was no contest of skill but simply a public gambling device...