Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigate some charges in support of which he, Mr. Adams, would be very glad to bring forward documents. The Governor did not seem to think an investigation was necessary. Mr. Adams then got himself appointed head of a special investigating committee of the Indiana Republican Editors Association. As a hint of what was coming he supplied the press last week with a copy of an ungrammatical letter...
...Among the stores near the Square at that time, was the firm of George Nichols, 'Bookseller to the University', who offered a hint to the stores of today by advertising his literary ware as 'for sale at the lowest Boston prices.' Nichols was located at the corner of Holyoke Street, and was later succeeded by John Bartlett, of the firm of Little and Brown, Boston publishers. The business has been transferred from place to place since then, but is still being run today by G. H. Kent on Massachusetts Avenue...
...Lord Bishop is 68. He likes boys. An active, voluble man with a big mouth and a professionally magnetic smile, he is skilled in the art of human intercourse, that art which consists of a measured degree of self-withdrawal combined with a hint of infinite comprehension. It is an art which can be practiced, in its higher degrees, only by amateurs, but when Bishop Ingram oversteps urbanity in his social assault upon the young persons submitted to his attention, he always has his Faith as an excuse. He has done an immense amount of good. He was appointed Lord...
TAMPICO-Joseph Hergesheimer -Knopf ($2.50). To a forest of oil wells, peopled by Mexican bandits, derelict Yankees, greasy drillers, dollar-brained exploiters and always, always, their perfumes clinging, their bodies twining and hinting as only a close observer of exotic flesh could make them twine and hint, women of extreme temperature waiting in cafes, hotel lobbies and upper chambers, Govett Bradier, oil baron extraordinary, returns to complete the theft of an associate's wife, Vida Carew. He is convalescent from malaria but chronically passion-ridden. What time he hangs around Tampico, small bright knives slip out of sheer hosiery...
...this has been the policy of Adolph Ochs publisher, executed by Louis Wiley, business manager. Publisher Ochs is a grave, patrician gentleman, with a bland hand and a judicial eye. His name is the only exclamatory thing about him. He presents an assurance of stability, a hint of qualities that take capitals, an implication of old-worldness, of principles, even, that seem oddly exotic in a world where tinsel is the mode. Manager Wiley was inevitably destined by nature to be the associate of Publisher Ochs. Two such opposites could never have kept apart. They would have been an irresistible...