Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, northwestern Senators swung to the support of the Federal Farm Board, flayed the private commission men as "gamblers." A rush of denials of trouble flowed from Farm Board Chairman Alexander Legge, Mr. Barnes, Chicago and Minneapolis grain men. From the White House came a broad hint that President Hoover would support his farm board chairman sooner than his business committee chairman in this controversy...
...York Times (Democratic): "We should have warmly greeted some Englishman distinguished in literature or science or social work who could have moved freely among us to give and take the best of either nation. This was not to be, and in the selection of Sir Ronald Lindsay a plain hint is given that the British Government expects to do a great deal of important business with...
...want any one to think I have lost any of my powers. I am going to tell you incidentally the scores of a couple of big games so no one will think that, and then I will drop a small hint on the important matter so that any real smart fellow will know what to do about it. California will have a tough time with Stanford but the final score will be just about 12 to 7. And the same may be said of the Notre Dame outfit when it runs up against Northwestern. The latter may score...
...Rubio is pledged to carry out the Party's aggressively radical economic and social programs. He shares the attitude toward Catholicism of General Calles who, while President of Mexico, publicly defied what he called "the grunts of the Pope." Betting odds favor Candidate Rubio so overwhelmingly that, taking a hint from the last U.S. election, he is campaigning with an air of ignoring his opponents, refusing to descend to debate with them...
...poem on the subject, from the French verses which attended a painting of the same kind, about St. Innocent's cloister, at Paris. The original verses were made by Machaber, a German, in his own language. This shows the antiquity of the subject, and the origin of the hint from which Holbein executed his famous painting at Basil...