Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was exactly what Filibusterer Connally had counted on. Three days later New York's Robert Wagner took the hint, prepared to sidetrack his Anti-Lynching Bill by bringing in the waiting conference report on his Wagner-Steagall Housing Amendment. When that is disposed of, the conference report on the Farm Bill will also be "privileged" over the Anti-Lynching Bill, keeping it off the floor until its sponsors can gracefully withdraw. Thus last week the legislation that the South, by hook, crook, or filibuster, has throttled in Congress for 35 years seemed to be throttled once more...
...year and a half before the 1929 stock crash, bonds broke. Last March, Business failed tc take the hint, however, when bonds that three months before had been at their highest level in history, broke violently. In one day $23,450,000 of Government bonds alone were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, a 16-year record...
...West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share of humiliations in the pursuit of women and wealth...
...London journalist & man-about-town. Playwright Jackson had failed to scrape together enough action for three acts. What he had written was a costume play on wordy marital misunderstandings. When the critical votes were counted, there were no thumbs up. After six performances the Marches & Director Cromwell took the hint with rare good humor. Their show closed the next night, but before it did Marwell Productions took to the advertising columns of Manhattan's newspapers with a graceful exit line...
What it lacks in circulation (as contrasted with the Daily Express's 2,400,000 copies), the Times makes up in weighty prestige. Sometimes a hint from the Times's "parliamentary correspondent" paves the way for action at No. 10 Downing Street. Rarely the Times thunders forth, altering British policy. During a crisis foreign embassies with almost comic concern telephone the Times to learn what it is going to say, take its words as the British attitude, often before the Foreign Office has made up its mind...