Word: hint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soon came a wireless message from Santiago de los Caballeros. "Supreme Chief" had accepted the hint of the U. S. Government. His forces would continue to advance on Santo Domingo, but there would be no fighting. Santo Domingo businessmen sighed with relief...
...aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge in a billion dollars worth of naval ship building. Admirals and statesmen conferred, President Hoover hurried north from Florida (see p. 13). At the last minute Prime Minister Tardieu dropped a hint. If Britain) and the U. S. would sign a security pact, guaranteeing not to supply food or munitions to any aggressor nation in a war with France, the French Government would cut its demands...
Conservative whips, anxious to plot their party strategy for the ensuing parliamentary term, have threatened, blustered, begged the complacent Labor Government for some hint of the make-up of the soon-to-be-announced Budget. Did the Labor Party intend to retain the old protective duties on sugar, silk? How about foreign automobiles? Grinning Laborites refused to answer. Last week, onetime (1924-29) Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston ("Winnie") Churchill joined the battle. Rising moon-faced from his bench, he glared over his wide wing collar at his successor, wizened Labor Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden...
...Crime" column in Saturday's CRIMSON without doubt "scooped" the Lampoon in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. I personally enjoyed the column so much that I hesitate even to hint that though the treatment of the subject was excellent, the satire directed against Professor Coolidge was, to say the least, harmful to the development of a neutral attitude toward the House Plan...
...specific remedy for all this is mentioned, but the Professor's statement is in itself a bread enough hint for the understanding reader. Traditions, persistent and tenacious things, are not to be altered at the more whim of an Administration. But the idea of fraternities is something else again. Dunster House, under the name of Omega Alpha and Lowell House disguised as Lambda Lambda Lambda would stand a far better chance of saving a critical situation. Add to this the penalty of expulsion for playing bridge or for speaking when spoken to, and the success of the House Plan...