Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slanderers are raising a great noise on the subject of American dollars. . . . I will therefore tell you about the dollars...
They saw the President's twig-whacked cheek, waited for him to explain. But President Hoover had more important things to tell about than twig-whacks. With his callers he talked of German reparations-a reduction of U. S. claims as a sacrifice. The conferees gravely nodded their heads, agreed to a modification of U. S. policy. Senator Borah left 15 minutes before the rest. All departed, holding their tongues, wondering if it were too late to keep dinner engagements...
...bedraggled group of Gastonia, N. C., strikers appeared in Washington to tell their grievances. They were snubbed by the National Women's Trade Union League on the ground that they were not affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Fourteen-year-old Binnie Green, who weighs 69 pounds, told of getting $4.95 for 60 hours' work a week in the mills. North Carolina's ponderous Senator Overman patted her on the head, and said: "This child ought to be in school." Then he backed away into the Senate, there to renew his warnings of Communistic agitation...
...next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David Vivian Bath, the ousted onetime gardener, was well qualified to write, for only year before yesterday he married the entirely honeymoonish Mary Hay, dancer, onetime...
Today she is mourned throughout the musical world. Most distracted are her pupils, young girls to whom she gave the last years of her life. They adored her, studied day and night, waiting for her to tell them they were ready for their debuts, remembering what she had done once many years before for a favorite pupil, Geraldine Farrar...