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Word: tell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever over there Joe? Sure, I have. I gave him a line. I say I gave him a line. He thinks I'm a great kidder. I tell right up what I think about things. Sure I do. Like the other day. . . . well, tell that guy he can go to some other table if he doesn't like it. Tell him he can go to some. . . .I was telling my friend you can go to some other table if you don't like this...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...sent you over here? How're things at the Main Desk? No. nobody here. I know that guy that tipped you off, though. He's a crank. Writes complaints all the time about you fellows at the Main Desk cracking wise. Sure. Ignore him. Tell the boss me and Joe said Ignore...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...always tell Louie's courses. He writes straight across both pages. Sometimes he takes the appendix home. I call him Doe when he does that--kidding. He got A in Ec A. That's a guy with imagination Joe. He goes back, he told me, sometimes as long as a year afterward and changes his handwriting and writes answers to his old gags...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...interview with an official of the King's household. He was at once passed in, for he is quite a well known figure in society and it was discovered to the amazement of the official whose duty it was to interview him, that he had come to tell the King's doctors that they were dealing with the case on a hopelessly wrong diagnosis. The King, he told the official, was suffering from the ill effects of his accident during the War when he was thrown from his horse, and nothing would do but that His Majesty must be treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crown | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...class of 1829 belonged--to mention only a few names--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Samuel F. Smith, and James Freeman Clarke. Would it not be appropriate for the class of 1929 to hold, on some date before graduation, or coincident with graduation, a commemoration meeting, at which speakers should tell of Harvard one hundred years ago, and the lives and work of some members of the class of 1829? R. W. Coues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Young Fellows of Excellent Pith" | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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