Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus clandestine was an announcement last week that the U. S. Department of State will not renew the anti-smuggling treaty with Mexico which expired during the week. Mexicans feared this announcement was a hint that the U. S. intends to cancel its embargo preventing the shipment of arms into Mexico, if the Mexican Government does not yield in the matter of allegedly confiscatory land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926 et seq.). If the embargo is lifted a revolution in Mexico would probably follow. In any case it will be easier to smuggle liquids and solids into...
Then blow, ye critics, blow; A-sailing we will go; The merest hint of a nice blue-print Will drive the foe away...
...woman at a church social whose seamstress has told her just why Mrs. Jiggetywig left her husband; or by the male dinner guest in Sedalia, Mo., who took his vacation under the auspices of Thos. Cook & Son. These, to squeeze the last drop of bliss from omniscience, will hint: "Ask me another!" Two youths lately turned out by that small incubator of great men, Amherst College, have entered this fertile vale of psychology and in it, after proper experiment, planted a book.* Before publishing they went calling. They called on President William Allan Neilson of Smith College and on Colyumnist...
Scarcely a minute after the fall of the puck at the start of the game, Zarakov gave the spectators a hint of the way the balance would turn when he whirled in front of the Laval net, took a lightning pass from Tudor and caged the puck for the Crimson's first score. Halfway through the first period Captain Ellison dashed down the left lane and netted a powerful drive from an acute angle. A. Matte made the lone Canadian tally near the period's close on a duplicate of Ellison's feat...
...novel is semiautobiographical, as its publishers hint darkly, then one can understand the author's readiness to be as garrulous in recalling his wounds of the spirit as an old soldier describing the carnage at Appomattox. That the book is carefully written?and perhaps for that reason especially appreciated by Britons, now in rebellion against the loose writing of the day-there is no doubt. But there is the feeling of words too long sought, too painstakingly chosen. For example a stream "wimples...