Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tests to be used by the eugenic courts will be common sense questions." Some of these will be political. What the political questions will be the State would only hint, indicating that they will be designed to reveal "what are the subject's hopes for the future." Thus a German Red might be asked what he hopes will happen to the Brown Dictatorship...
...care what others say," cried she. "My heart is leaping for thrills. I want speed. I want to fly. I want to attend orchestra dances. . . . One day Gandhi stated that he had not put a fence around the cantonment and any girl could leave, so I took the hint. ... I have written to Gandhi fully concerning my change of heart including the flutter caused in meeting a man with beautiful eyes and brows...
Lamed Horses, Troubles on the Federal front also helped to send leading liquor shares into a deep, dark nose-dive on the New York Stock Exchange last week. First hint had come when a virtual embargo was clamped on liquor imports. It was learned that President Roosevelt had listened sympathetically to a Brain Trust idea of forming a government corporation to handle the entire wholesale liquor business. When the distillers submitted a code of fair competition, they saw it thrown in the wastebasket. Last week they were asked to accept a code, drawn by a special Roosevelt committee, which imposed...
Ernest Hemingway's critics are beginning to call him a professional Hard Guy, hint that at bottom he is an adolescent sentimentalist. His followers crane their necks up at him as if he were a Paul Bunyan of literature, striding from strength to strength. Plain readers read him because he sometimes writes stories that hold them breathless. All three will find what they are looking for in Hemingway's latest book. Nobody now could mistake a Hemingway story for anything else. His language may appear hard-boiled but it is really a carefully artificial dialect. His subjects...
...Tilford before the War was one of the largest liquor dealers in the U. S. They stocked tycoons' cellars from Manhattan to San Francisco. Hard hit by the loss of this profitable trade, they expanded their grocery and restaurant business in the last decade, but at the first hint of repeal more than a year ago President Gordon Stewart began to renew his European contracts. Their gin is Booth's High & Dry, their Scotch Sanderson's Vat 69, their champagne Heidsieck's Monopole, their sherries, ports and Madeiras John Harvey & Sons'. When the Schulte interests...