Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what is supposed to be a free hand. Then Editor Ross is assailed by doubts. Soon he takes issue with every decision that "Jesus" makes, and presently his hostility becomes a deep loathing for his Executive Editor. He tries to make "Jesus" so uncomfortable that he will take the hint and resign. If that fails, he leaves a letter of dismissal on his desk and scuttles out of town...
...sympathizes, of course, when heart-rending conditions in a home lead to marital shipwreck, particularly when, as in these cases, innocent children are involved. But a divorce followed by a remarriage five days later evokes no such sympathy . . . and a second divorce in the same family, with the hint of another possible remarriage in the offing, certainly does not seem to indicate the kind of parental influence that one might expect from a family of strong religious and social interests. The most discouraging feature of it all is that neither the President nor his wife has seen fit to give...
...rations or even riding in automobiles and there are the ironically named "settler specialists" whose homes and property have been taken from them and who "specialize" in digging holes to live in. Despite the idealism which decrees brilliant funerals for workers killed by their own stupidity we get a hint that the changes have not yet penetrated for "a huge poster over the piggery, but such fifth inside that been the pigs have died." Certain classes pursue the communist ideal with a fansticism and introspection almost identical to the religious mania of the Inquisition, using the same terms-apostasy, heresy...
which does not derive from some suggestion or hint in some classical authority, and some of the most surprising apparent inventions have historical foundation." Some of them: the haunting to death of Germanicus at Antioch; Caligula's bridging of the Bay of Baiae; Tiberius' ingenious cruelty to a fisherman he suspected of trying to poison him; the song Julius Caesar's veterans sang at his French triumph...
...statistics of ingot production. The demand index, which anticipates the trend of actual consumption up to three months, is calculated on figures from steel's customers-automobiles, railroads, building, oil. Gross railroad income furnishes a clue to probable purchases of rails and equipment. Building permits and contract awards hint at that industry's future steel buying. If the spread between the supply and demand indices is growing unfavorable, inventories must be piling up in some one's warehouses...