Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little fighting of any sort was there around Madrid, that correspondents began to hint that the Whites were mainly trying during the bitter winter weather to keep as many Militia in the north as possible while in Spain's sunny south the Generalissimo was rumored quietly preparing a White offensive against Valencia, the seaport to which the Madrid Cabinet long since fled (TIME, Nov. 16). Spunky General José Miaja, defender of Spain's erstwhile Capital, was holding out ably last week, issuing such proclamations as "The people of Madrid will eat their shoes before they surrender...
Sarah wears a red collar sent to her many years ago by an admirer, which bears the inscription: "To Sarah, the College Cat, Cambridge." So if anyone finds Sarah, the Yard Cope would welcome her back with open arms; and there is a hint that a reward might be paid...
...judgment of His Majesty. The Primate is not actually jeered (as the Cabinet are) on leaving Downing Street after a conference with the Prime Minister but a woman darts forward to thrust at the Archbishop's limousine a placard: "ABDICATION MEANS REVOLUTION!" Cinema houses take an official hint, and newsreels of the King & Mrs. Simpson hand-in-handing are suppressed. The official B.B.C. radio station tells prominent King's Men who offer to broadcast that "no time is available," but such commentators as Mr. Vernon Bartlett go unmistakably pro-Baldwin in references to the Sovereign...
...Lord Stanhope, the Cabinet's First Commissioner of Works, was understood to hint that His Majesty's Government think they may soon have to impose highly unpopular Army conscription when he guardedly told Their Lordships. "I am bound to admit that under present conditions of service the volunteer system is obviously in grave danger...
...life of Catherine of Russia. It was a picture characterized by a peculiar violence of background and a remarkable tedium of pace. By making a much better picture on the same subject, Elisabeth Bergner rubbed the first bloom off the von Sternberg-Dietrich prestige. Still there was no hint of rift until with dramatic abruptness von Sternberg told an Associated Press reporter he was going to break with Dietrich. He said he had done all he could to further her career, that he considered he would hinder her development. Dietrich read the story in the press. For two days...