Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only hint of the crusading spirit, it seemed to this reviewer, was struck in the two chapters dealing with student religion and religious organizations. Was there a faint flavor of propaganda in the assembling of the testimonials in those pages? We dare not say, since these dealt with much matter that is entirely foreign to the Harvard scene, and therefore fell upon the mind with a singular noise...
Though these instances might seem to hint that the Great Powers have already reverted to "Secret Diplomacy," Jonkheer Loudon quickly found out that only M. Sato of Japan was willing to admit the fact. Therefore League progress toward Disarmament was again impressively halted...
...details of producing plays with a strange, irritable, creative fervor, so that you might think he had written them. Because he has picked four enormous hits out of the mass of plays that go the rounds of the producers' offices, people sometimes ask him for a formula, a hint of how to know. Jed Harris, like every truly successful producer, has no system. Three of his four most famed productions are full of fast action, two are full of profanity, which proves nothing, except that he knows that people like such things in plays...
...Power in Wall Street stops to chat with his favorite newsboy and lets fall a hint that such and such a stock is cheap at the current market price, the newsboy has what is known as a "sure thing." If the boy generously lets a traffic policeman in on the secret, he unburdens himself of a "hot tip." If the policeman hesitates to act on the tip, decides first to read How to Invest Money Wisely, by John Moody, he is given the benefit of "financial counsel...
...relations of Chile with the U. S. are certainly not complex. Ambassador Collier has handled them with such distinguished ease that there has not been even a hint of a "Chile incident." Previously, he had been U. S. Minister to Spain (1905-09) and president of George Washington University (1918-21). He is a lawyer. Nine fat volumes have come from his pen; among them, Collier on Bankruptcy, The Trusts, The Law and the Higher...