Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Pennsylvanians were astounded, not only by the charges, but by the hint that their once wealthy Governor had managed to do away with all of his sugar millions. For some time, however, the informed rich have been aware that Mr. Earle is no longer able to pony up such party funds as the $35,000 he gave the Democrats in 1932 and the $140,000 he put up for his own campaign in 1934. But until last week few suspected that their Sugar Boy turned Laborcrat was unable to repay a paltry $6,000, even though the continued existence...
...leave, he drew a knife. As Frankie edged toward her pistol she warned him: "You're trying to get me hurt, and I don't want me to hurt you. The best place for you to go is your mother." When Britt failed to take the hint, she shot him. Groaning on the floor, he gasped: "Oh, you have me." Frankie couldn't believe it. "You're just wanting to get up onto me to cut me," she exclaimed. But she was wrong; he was done...
...tall, broad, swashbuckling hero is dimple-chinned John Carroll (real name: Julian La Faye), a little-known player who resembles Ronald Colman, has a hint of Douglas Fairbanks' agility, and sings in a rich, concert-trained baritone...
Another move was an Iranian hint that His Britannic Majesty's naval forces in the Persian Gulf were no longer welcome to make their base in Iranian waters. Result: The British Naval Base was moved across the Gulf to the oil-laden Bahrein Islands, territory of more tractable, independent H. H. Sheik Sir Hamad bin 'Isa al Khalifa, leaving His Britannic Majesty's diplomatic agent for the Persian Gulf uncomfortably high & dry in.' Bushire's British Residency (see map, p. IQ). Meanwhile protection-loving Imperial Airways revised its flying route to India, establishing its regular...
...older and feeble as well, I carry on for the mademoiselle;" they take the hint with all the alacrity of the class...