Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...types. Such earthy behavior and marrowy speech never was indulged in by men of straw. Son of a parson, Powys is much concerned with village religion, but his Rev. Silas Dotterys, Rev. Mr. Gassers do not always behave in an orthodox pastoral manner. Rev. Mr. Dottery, for instance, once hinted broadly from the pulpit that he felt it inconsiderate of his parishioners to die at his dinnertime; the hint was sufficient. Parson Sparrow, whose predecessor's morals had been lax, found to his dismay that the more upright he was, the wickeder became his people. In humble desperation...
...STAMP IT OUT!" headlined Harlem's Amsterdam News, then heaved in big white President Hoover's direction this dark and subtle hint...
...Within the next fortnight Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson will, according to a State Department hint, expound in a public speech this treaty, which the U. S. never signed...
...Massachusetts' Senator Walsh hint...
Speaking of this book and Divisional Examinations in the same breath is something more than a broad hint. The head of the English Department at Hunter College and John Macy offer their work to the public as the latest contribution to the "Ask Me Another" game and then go on to hope it may "lure the reader into further readings". Without attempting to discredit this landable ambition, suffice it to say that "Do You Know English Literature?" is just the sort of thing for those frantic hours when "further readings" is impractical...