Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hence a lot of funny pictures about Princeton men being pigs, even though everybody at Harvard knew they were good forward passers, and Princeton got excited. Princeton waited for Harvard to apologize, and Harvard waited for Princeton to get tired of waiting. Finally Princeton took the hint and just busted up the 'Big Three," saving Harvard's honor and dignity...
...rules to release pupils from school in order that they may attend Bible classes elsewhere but on school time; and what with new anti-Evolution bills coming up in Arkansas and other state legislatureshow far the Fundamentalist determination to reform the country extends. News from Atlanta, Ga., contained a hint of notable latitude. There the loudest speaker of all Fundamentaldom, Dr. John Roach Straton of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, had been imported to address the mother chapter of "The Supreme Kingdom," a high-powered crusading fraternity founded last winter (TIME, Feb. 1) with the paid assistance of Organizer Edward...
Hopeful that Minister Lampson came to inaugurate a firm British "Imperialist" policy in China, the Union Club of Shanghai banqueted him, waited over the cigars for some hint of Downing Street's policy toward China from their lanky guest. At last he dropped a most portentous hint. "Gentlemen," he said, "I am going to Hankow on my way to Peking. . . ." Thus, by a bland indirection, Minister Lampson announced that his real business in China is not with the impotent vanishing "Government" at Peking to which he is accredited, but with the new, potent Cantonese Government which already controls half...
...wedded. "That girl was a happy and radiant bride when she went to the altar," said he, referring to the recent testimony of Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Consuelo's mother, that she, Mrs. Belmont, coerced her daughter. "I know some of the Vanderbilts personally. . . . There was no hint from any quarter that the bride was under compulsion." Later, amid applause of the Church of England Assembly, convened in London, the Bishop of Ripon bodingly warned: "Our church ought to be an obstacle to realization of the Papal dream. We have recently seen the degree of modern opportunism liable...
...present death-struggle between Conservative North and Progressive South there is something of the religious fervor of Cromwell's Ironsides, traces of the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity of the Jacobins, oven a hint of the class war of Marx and Lenin. Among the ranks of the Chinest revolutionaries are also certain men suggesting the drill commanders employed by our own patriots of '76, only instead of French and German military experts, the Southern Chinese have chosen instructors and advisers from Soviet Russia...