Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pigeon-holers used to put Ruth Suckow into the compartment marked "Dreary Middle West, small-town." Pigeon-holers were wrong. Authoress Suckow is not one of those documentary writers who cannot see the people for the buildings. She has more than a hint of that knack Katherine Mansfield had, which many a Russian writer has, of holding a simplifying lens up to human nature. In this book of 14 short stories about Children and Older People you have the almost constant feeling that you are seeing people as they...
...hectic midnight meeting the People's Party caucus ignored pleas by Dr. Curtius and President Luther of the Reichsbank, voted stubbornly and contrarily to desert the Brüning Cabinet, desert Dr. Curtius and go into Opposition. That amazing act shook the Iron Chancellor's nerve. He began to hint to the Socialists (Germany's largest party) that his emergency decree is "subject to amendment...
...work book. In the hands of a lusty toiler, it will show solid profits." No trilling Pippa of pedagogy, no profound Paracelsus either, Professor Pitkin is nothing if not practical, hates waste, is hot after results. In this Pitkinesque textbook, thumb-printed with many a helpful hint, anecdote, rule, bristling with statistics and questionnaires, you may spend some lively hours, may even learn something about learning...
Upon newsstands last week appeared a booklet bearing on its cover a photograph of the wrecked plane, and this legend in red and black: 'UNCENSORED TRUTH ABOUT ROCKNE'S STRANGE DEATH! At Last-Inside Story of the Fatal Crash." The booklet merely hints that someone might have tampered with the plane; does not even hint at identity or motive. It was published in Minneapolis by Graphic Arts Corp. which is controlled by Fawcett Publications (Capt. Billy's Whiz-Bang, Jim-Jam-Jems...
...contract and President Insull was glad to take her at her word, particularly after the expensive production of Hamilton Forrest's Camille (TIME, Dec. 15) turned out a failure. Already vacationing on the Riviera, Singer Garden had no comment to make on Chicago's gossip. Only hint of her plans was in her announcement that she was "by no means" retiring from opera...