Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might go "right down to Canton" some 1,200 miles south of Tientsin. Before it began dickering it wanted proof that China was "serious" about wanting to dicker. Meanwhile in the evacuated territory north of Tientsin the Chinese soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief moment.* Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission...
...will perhaps be forgiven for reemphasizing the respective suggested cures; the Dean--abolition of the reading period, the CRIMSON--futility. In either instance a hint that the solution might long ago have been effected by shifting emphasis away from examinations would have plucked leaves from the victors wreath. The clubmen and the future revenues of Harvard are still safe. (Name withheld by request...
Newlyweds who took a broad hint and dropped $2 or more into Clerk McCormick's open, cash-filled drawer, got a "God bless you." Those who paid nothing had "Cheap skate!" yelled after them. One man testified that when he gave $1, Clerk McCormick remarked with some disgust: "One lousy buck...
Roger Hewlett '33, author of the book, did not go far afield for his plot. That it includes scenes "in the living room of Miss Caroline Porter's House," on board the S. S. Iambic (which provides opportunity for a pirate scene) and a Paris cabaret gives sufficient hint as to its nature. W. F. Draper '35 takes the feminine lead with admirable gusto. His blitheness and litheness put the local vanities and ventures in the shade. Between the acts it was embarrassingly difficult to distinguish between the genuine debs in the audience and the members of the chorus...
This sage hint for the Grand National was given by an old trainer to Count Charles Kinsky, who won the race with his own mare, Zoedone, in 1883. Another scrap of the lore which has grown up since 1839 around the hardest steeplechase in the world-four and one-half miles over 30 jumps at Aintree, England-is not to ride a favorite. Most Grand National winners have been outsiders. At Aintree this week the favorites-Miss Dorothy Paget's Golden Miller and Mrs. M. A. Gemmell's Gregalach, the winner...