Word: hint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal man at Washington turns the water into ice, as we gracefully measure our length in front of the University, we think of this. We do not find fault with the management of our beloved institution, but we mildly hint that plank walks, such as are each winter on the Boston Common, would be a blessing to Faculty and students...
...FOOTNOTE* Depression-conscious, too, is a current series of Arrow Collars advertisements. To the jobless they hint that jobs come easier to the man in a stiff collar. To the employed they hint that the man in a stiff collar is more pleasing to his employer, surer...
...hint of Downing was seized upon and expanded as it flew from mouth to mouth, until at last it has actually been met skulking near the back door of history in a form something like this: General Jackson, upon being harangued in Latin, found himself in a position of immense perplexity. It was simply decent for him to reply in the learned language in which he was addressed, but, alas' the Shaksperian modieum of 'small Latin' was all that Old Hickory possessed, and what he must do was clearly to rise to the situation and make the most...
...this does seem to us a fair question: 'Doesn't the large size papers' playing down of the Gordon story and playing up of the Muscle Shoals give a hint at the reason why six large size papers have folded up in New York City since 1919, while three tabloid papers have come to life in the same period...
...Stanwyck, though being old-fashioned enough to fall head over heels in love, as she so graphically describes the emotion, is modern enough to believe that marriage is poison to said emotion. So she goes away on weekends (that's where they get the title, that and a sly hint from the box-office.) But the hero, being a gentleman, finally says no, he cares too much to let it go on, so they get married, despite Miss Stanwyck's theories. Sure enough she was right and things go from bad to worse until they separate. That doesn't work...