Word: tell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixty cents? I beg YOUR pardon. Huh? Bill that guy swapped checks on me. That's all right, he'll get it in the neck tomorrow. In French. We got a rotten section man, did I tell...
...Buddhists are not essentially missionaries. A Buddhist will not interfere if he sees a man about to cross a bridge known to be condemned. He will suppose, courteously, that the man knows what he is doing. However should the man inquire if the bridge be safe, the Buddhist will tell him. Similarly Buddhists do not generally interfere with other people's religion nor try to lead them from paths they have chosen...
...Hollister distinguishes between the good testimonial (unpaid for, voluntary) and the bad testimonial (bought, solicited). It is difficult to see how any publisher can question the advertiser's word concerning the legitimacy of testimonials and it is even more difficult to imagine how the reading public can tell whether a testimonial represents a donation or a purchase. From the standpoint of popular faith in advertising it would appear that one rotten testimonial apple would corrupt the entire barrel and that the distinction between good and bad testimonials will become as tenuous as the now somewhat archaic distinction between "good...
Uncle Geebee has a great big surprise for you kiddies this morning. He is going to tell you all about Peter Pan--the boy who wouldn't grow up. Well, kiddies, Peter was sent to college; and that was just ideal. For of course, at college one doesn't work; one just pretends to be sophisticated; one doesn't grow up,--one becomes what some call indifferent. This was wonderful for Peter, for he didn't want ever...
...years ago the coon-skin coat, at an initial cost of from two to six hundred dollars, was regarded as standard equipment by the sport-model type of undergraduate. Many were entirely happy but a few hopelessly envious and dejected without one. A large number of undergraduates would, however, tell their fathers that everybody was wearing one. Its vogue is passing, even among its erstwhile votaries. It would be pleasant to believe that it was being discarded because it was expensive. I am afraid this had nothing to do with it. Some undergraduate must have noticed that young...