Word: hints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Page was unsympathetic in enforcing U. S. rights as a neutral when Britain broke international law by going to extremes in her blockade of Germany. He fought with Lansing who tried to insist on American rights. He even gave Britain a hint to have a U. S. vessel seized by the French in order to ease up Anglo-American tension...
...number of enigmatic telegrams sent from their station to various parts of the U. S. The messages appeared, at first glance, to be in code, but a closer scrutiny revealed that they were merely lists of names?Chinese names. Did some sinister purport lodge in these formal messages?a hint of vague hatreds, of malice palely half-smiling from faces as yellow as the telegraph blanks, and as inscrutable? It was hard to be sure. The police, at all events, evinced some interest in the messages; they were also curious to trace certain long distance telephone calls from Boston...
Premier Mackenzie King, replying to a question in the Canadian House of Commons, announced that the appointment of the first Dominion Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington would be made in the near future. No hint was made as to who will be nominated for the post...
...cutter," said Sculptor Borglum of the committeemen of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. Impressed by the jibe, the committeemen held a session, last week, to find a successor to Borglum. They considered, one by one, the names of 100 famed sculptors, warily blackballed all whose reputations disclosed the least hint of tombstone-cutting, chose, at length, a Virginian sculptor, Augustus Lukeman...
...backers of the Theatregoers' Club know now that the undergraduate mind must be soothed and not forced. Yesterday they held another meeting without fireworks or gun play. A soft spring breeze etherized the Faculty Room of the Union, there was no hint of unconstitutionalism. Harvard snoozed and smiled, voted and assented to the same names it had protested against last week. It was a victory of tact over pressure, common sense over legal foolishness. The undergraduate temper must not be trified with...