Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pieces to a humaner pattern. So did his pal Dave. When Allen scraped together enough money to buy the local paper he proceeded to set the town on its ear. Subscriptions fell off but needy friends rallied to Allen's cause. Jordanstown's bosses dropped Allen a hint to mind his manners, but he went right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort. When the cheering marchers got there, the chief of police and a committee of plug-uglies...
...Duke of Windsor has not yet paid rent on Castle Enzesfeld, although its Rothschild owners left some weeks ago, a polite hint. By last week Austrian police, correspondents and such Government officials as have frequent contact with His Royal Highness had in fact soured on Edward. Typical comment: "He gives orders to everybody, shouts and gets furious if police, railway officials and the rest don't jump. The de luxe through express trains have to be stopped to put him down or pick him up from tiny ski stations, something neither the President nor the Chancellor of Austria would...
Perhaps it is because the action is not fast enough for melodrama, and because there is a hint of anticlimax in the ending. It gradually gathers speed, works up to its climax, and then when the point is made an extra and somewhat irrelevant scene is added by way of explanation...
...issued to present holders of German bonds in settlement of past-due interest, SEC finally gave up. It allowed the registration to become effective but not without a bold attempt to supply on its own hook some of the missing information it deemed vital to investors, particularly a hint as to the Reich's "secret debt...
...then of course there are Dick Cooke and Johnny Macionis and Charlie Rogers. Charlie, by the bye, may be another ace in the hole. He's been doing some remarkable swimming in practice, and has not yet reached his season's peak. We'll only drop a hint--Charlie was a good Freshman back-stroker...