Word: hint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Memphians and tourists alike have deplored the change. Touring Comedian Danny Thomas added his lament to the rest. In Memphis he dashed off a song Bring Back Our Beale Street Blues, a couple of nights later sang it to 15,000 cheering Memphians. Mayor Frank Tobey took the hint, promptly presented an ordinance to the city commission. Next week, after the third official reading, Beale Avenue will once more become Beale Street...
...poetry's origin, Gloria's publisher said: "She filled her diary with poetry-her own poignant expression of a mood, the lonely torture of young love, the ecstasy of fulfillment-all intensely personal." No advance peeks at the verses were permitted, but Gloria herself offered a hint of their content: "All of my poems spill from life, from feelings . . . tender and thunderous, serene and raging and unique and true . . . Nothing is anything unless it is done from feeling, which is the same thing as nothing is anything unless it is done from and with love...
Later in the press conference, the President threw out a hint that the Secretary might have to leave Government for another, personal reason. Said he: "Mrs. Hobby placed me on notice some many months ago." (Her 77-year-old husband, Texas' ex-Governor William P. Hobby, has been seriously ill with arthritis.) "If she has to go," added Dwight Eisenhower, "I will be very, very disappointed . . . She has done a mighty magnificent...
...that day is not yet here. As required by custom, Premier Scelba journeyed to the Quirinal Palace to present his formal resignation to the new President. Scelba made it plain that he regarded his resignation as only "a personal expression of dutiful deference." Gronchi took the hint, and formally rejected the resignation. Scelba, who has shown more agility in surviving in office than activity in governing, thus won another reprieve which should last at least until the Sicilian elections in early June...
Scarcely a day passes without some hint of easing international tensions-and Wall Street traders, who hate uncertainty above all, become cautious...