Word: hints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that it should be retrieved by yet harder fighting, no longer seems to be a safe policy. It is the necessity of making the German public fancy that their army had avoided a trap and thus won a negative success which is the true significance of this attitude. No hint of a failure is admitted to the people even in the midst of a series of unqualified successes...
...noteworthy thing, as recorded in the press dispatches yesterday, that the interned German liners displayed American flags in commemoration of the birthday of Lincoln. It would be the depth of prejudice to hint that the display of those flags betokened anything but the sincere admiration of the commanders of the liners. Those men, alien and powerless in this country while a great war threatens the land of their birth, may have come in thirty months to feel some measure of regard for that great American who typifies the ideals and the democratic power of his people...
...Spoladic reports last fall from Ohio--where commercialized football has taken deep root--gave hint of what might happen with the professional system flourishing on a large scale. Collegians, still in college, but having completed their three years in football, played under assumed names, and the fame of certain gridiron heroes was exploited with nothing but gate receipts in mind. One of the leading conference coaches recently expressed to me his theory that Wisconsin's chances had been injured by the fact of some of Withington's assistants running off each Saturday evening to play Sunday football with professional teams...
...supposed anti-British sentiments." There was also a foul blast from another Boston sheet to the effect that Harvard suppresses the truth. If Mrs. Skeffington had been allowed to speak in Emerson Hall it is fairly certain that the newspapers would have chronicled that simple fact without any hint of the sentiments of the College authorities...
...music reminds one strongly of "High Jinks"--so strongly, in fact, that one is tempted to hint at plagiarism. But this is rather to the credit of "You're in Love" than otherwise. The only twains that have the slightest chance of becoming "popular" are "You're in Love" and "Loveland." These are easily above the average of most musical comedies, but they will hardly stand comparison beside--"Very Good Eddie for example...