Word: hint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attracted by this "Hint from John Harvard" (who left his books to the college--to be burnt up in the library fire of 1764) we thought of bringing our French 2 and German A books up in a wheelbarrow and dumping them on the Widener steps some dark night. But last year we watched Mr. Walton and his men load eight tons of duplicate books, a record shipment, in a truck for a New York dealer. So we are skeptical, having never thought of John Harvard as needful of our books, either as a collector or as a broker...
...Cornell whom the President had commissioned to study dollar devaluation and stabilization. Just back from a survey of European monetary systems Professor Warren spent hours reporting to the President, recommending eventual use of his own famed "commodity dollar" by the U. S. The President listened long, gave no hint of his intentions...
Except for this one vague, and possibly unimportant trend toward the realm of the pure intellect, the President's views on the mechanics of an education are broad and humanistic: they admit the advantages of society's ameliorating influence; they hint at the beauties of conviviality; and most encouraging of all, they show a definite desire to perpetuate Harvard as a gentleman's retreat, rather than a gubber's paradise...
From Detroit emanated a hint that foxy Mr. Ford was only waiting to see what kind of code his competitors would adopt, then go them all one better with a more generous code...
...injury. Report to those who sent you that I can detect a Jesuit at sight, however disguised." Once, suspecting a wife of slowly poisoning her husband but having no proof, Sutherland told her that her husband's food was not agreeing with him. He thinks she took the hint. (Author Hugh Walpole has this story in his last book, All Souls' Night...